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internet and the fall of dictatorship  

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  • In the mid-1990s in Indonesia, the political opposition's uses of the Internet even managed to help topple a strongman (General Suharto) who, until his unanticipated resignation in May 1998, had been Asia's longest reigning postwar ruler. He had seized power in 1965 with U.S. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media; Internet and the Fall of Dictatorship]

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