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Turkmenistan: What If There Was Internet?

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007 @ 23:29 UTC

by Nathan Hamm

Countries:: Turkmenistan
Topics:: Human Rights, Internet & Telecoms

neweurasia posts a comment from a reader who was discussing whether or not access to the internet is important for people in Turkmenistan. The commenter points out there are plenty of more serious problems to worry about.

1 comment

Larry

It will not change a situation because it is controlled by the government.It will just be impossible to find out what world audience think of Turkmenistan hence Turkmenistan will stay isolated as it was before.

from Larry who lived in Turkmenistan for 17 years and currently lives in England as asylum seeker
P.S.:if you want to contact me or help me,my e-mail address is guychli@hotmail.com

# 2007-02-28 at 21:13 pm

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