When the regime’s thugs open fire on a crowd, the video hits the net within minutes. It’s more difficult for despots to do their dirty work when the world is watching.

Digital media is turning the world into a kind of panopticon. Ironic, in a very good way, that it turned out to be the ‘Big Brothers’ who now have to try to scurry away from the reach of the ubiquitous ‘telescreens’.