Second, they are looking for ways to use that information to control the flow of power fast enough to avoid blackouts.

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For the past three years, with the active collusion of the local media, Kadima has managed to control the flow of information to the public and so successfully covered up the abject failures of its strategic policies.

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But in 2012, at a time when anyone with a cell phone can spread offensive views around the world with the click of a button, the notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.

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In the last two decades, leading information, communications, and technology (ICT) companies have sold goods and services to repressive governments, enabling them to dramatically improve their surveillance and intelligence capabilities as well as control the flow of information from the outside world.

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The phased plan calls for Muslims to establish and expand their presence in non-Muslim societies, acquire and occupy actual physical space, ensure the local Muslim communities know and follow Islamic doctrine, control the flow of correct information about the plan to non-Muslims, co-opt key leadership, oppose official counterterrorism efforts, and demand the acceptance and eventually, the practice and domination, of shariah.

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For information to flow freely, there can't be any single point of control.

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"'War veterans' and youth militia have set up roadblocks and taken control of huge swathes of the countryside in order to limit the flow of information on the extent of the violence and to punish those perceived to have voted for the MDC, " the report said.

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They seek an international legal instrument that would lead to exclusive government control over Internet resources, institutions and content and national barriers on the free flow of information online.

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Aligned against the watchmaker are retailers and free-flow-of-information types like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who say Omega is using a law designed to control creative works to control the U.S. prices of manufactured products.

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