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Bahamas, T.C.I., U.S.A.: Google & Democracy

Categories: Caribbean, North America, Bahamas, Turks & Caicos Isl., U.S.A., Digital Activism, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Ideas, International Relations, Law, Media & Journalism, Politics, Technology

As Google states that it may very well hand over journalists’ IP addresses [1] in connection with the exposure of alleged corruption in the Turks and Caicos, Bahamian blogger Nicolette Bethel [2] comments: “Google’s action threatens the ability — indeed the possibility — for true democracy ever to exist in these, our little nations (and by extension those nations that really really need the anonymity of the internet to fight the physical oppression that they face).”