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...because he is unaccountable to the vast majority of Dubai residents, 95% of whom are foreign and who live in Dubai subject to his favor. Other places in the gulf have larger native populations, or more active national assemblies than Dubai. While rulers in those places are no doubt authoritarian, they still have to tread more carefully with public opinion, or at least the opinion of the conservative religious, military and business circles that keep them in power. (See pictures of Dubai...
...brinjal issue is yet another reminder of how difficult the government's balancing act is - and of the extra pressures that a democracy like India face compared to more authoritarian countries...
Another key will be the government he forms, assuming he ousts Tymoshenko as Prime Minister. The Russian authoritarian model is not tempting to many of the oligarchs who back Yanukovych. "They don't want to become politically dependent on Russia. They're worried they'll meet the same fate as [Mikhail] Khodorkovsky," says Viktor Nebozhenko, a political analyst in Kiev, referring to the jailed Russian tycoon...
...then came Jan. 12, and for Li and Baidu, things went from the sublime to the ridiculous. That's the day Google drew its now famous line in the sand, saying it was no longer willing to censor its Internet searches in China - as the authoritarian government demands - given what it believes have been repeated attempts by Chinese authorities to hack its systems and steal dissidents' Gmail addresses. However noble Google's sentiment may be, in business terms it was "effectively a suicide note" when it came to the search business, as one rival Internet executive put it. "Google...
...globe, the latter emphasizes the U.S. promoting indigenous voice in countries that curb free speech, says NYU telecommunications professor Clay Shirky, adding that enabling citizens to express themselves "is way more threatening than Voice of America-style broadcasts, and autocratic governments will react to that." Thus far, authoritarian governments have largely managed to control the Internet in their countries, argues Hal Roberts, a researcher with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. "Actually I think the story of the first 15 years of the widespread use of the Internet is that it is deeply embedded with local mechanisms...