Are There Countries Whose Situations Worsened with the Arrival of the Internet?

This post originally appeared on Freedom To Tinker, after @evgenymorozov tweeted that he would want help with a graph of data before he would believe that there were no countries where the situation worsened with the arrival of the internet.

@evgenymorozov @ericschmidt there are no countries where tech diffusion rates high and authoritarianism worsened.will graph it again for u

— Phil Howard (@pnhoward) April 18, 2013

It was then picked up by Cory Doctorow and given a punchline for BoingBoing.  Then nice debate about what “the internet” and the “situation” meant with @sivavaid, @sjschultze, @sarahkendzior, @arjenkamphuis, @dgolumbia, @tjl, and Richard Stallman.  Then caught the attention of Andrew Sullivan.