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A glimpse of the future for human rights and the Internet...

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As the Internet develops, it is able to encompass other technologies which are fundamental to documenting human rights violations. In addition to sound (as we saw on the B-92 site), human rights-based sites are being to take advantage of video as well.

Witness, a web site sponsored by the Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights, posts video images of human rights situations, as well as offering video training online for those who want to provide evidence to the world of human rights violations.

Conclusion:

Revolutions often spawn counterrevolutions, even on the technological level. Unlike the United States and China, many governments still do not understand its potential impact. If allowed to be controlled by a government, instead of a tool for democracy, the Internet may be employed as a tool by which more modern dictatorships can monitor and control its citizens.