"American influence" is the great white whale of the 21st century.
Daniel Henninger gives us some examples from around the world that show how American technology in the form of the Internet, blogs and text-messaging cell phones are producing a wave of free speech in places where it had been a rarity before. Now people are using this American technology to influence events in their own countries in ways which were just not possible even ten years ago. Today, if nations that are authoritarian want to keep up with the technology Americans are inventing, they must also import the freedom of speech that goes along with it or be left behind.
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