Governments have always worried about the flow and control of information, and the current period is not the first to be strongly affected by dramatic changes in information technology. What is new – and what we see manifested in the Middle East today – is the speed of communication and the technological empowerment of a wider range of actors.
各国政府从来都对信息的流动和控制忧心不已，其实这已经不是第一个被信息技术革命强烈震撼的年代了。而新的内容——正如我们目前在中东地区看到的——则是信息沟通的加速以及技术向许多参与者赋予权力的事实。