article_snippet.sent: (CNN)Just as mimeograph machines and photocopiers were in mimeograph machines and photocopiers day, online activity -- blogs, YouTube channels, even social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter -- have fully emerged as the alternative to traditional mainstream media.
article_snippet.sent: It is not just the low cost of posting online that attracts dissidence, though that in itself is liberating.
article_snippet.sent: itself is the lack of access to traditional print and broadcast media in authoritarian countries that is really the driving force leading disaffected voices to post online.
article_snippet.sent: Going online has become the path of least resistance if you want to make yourself heard.
article_snippet.sent: Because our 1992 start date really precedes the full advent of the Internet, that proportion can be expected to grow.
highlights_snippet.sent: Going online has become the path of least resistance if you want to make yourself heard .
  