It Didn't Work For Pope Leo Either

Dan Rather was only an appetizer. It's time for the internet to topple some real tyrants.

"Increased access to information through the Internet, which is just one of the many fruits of China's development, is producing a predicament for China's leadership.

China's pragmatic leaders undoubtedly saw allowing widespread access to the Internet as necessary for growth, but hoped to rein in its power by using firewalls to block "unsavory" information. But the Internet has only endowed citizens with a heightened awareness of the amount of information that is being blocked."

Just as Guttenburg's printing press toppled Catholic tyranny 500 years ago, the internet will topple communism in China. Information is power.