India’s Downward Spiral
This is an unsurprising extension into the electronic realm of India's notoriously weak support of free expression. They were the first country to ban the <i>Satanic Verses</i>; its import, I believe, is <i>still</i> illegal there. Citizens are routinely persecuted under laws that literally prohibit hurting people's religious feelings (recently invoked against a researcher who exposed another fake Catholic miracle[0]).
 India is the most prominent example of a country with plenty of voting but no democracy.<p>[0] <a href="http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2012/07/sanal-edamarukus-situation-worsens.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2012/07/sanal-edamarukus-situ...</a>