| Advances in the technology of communications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes: fax machines enable dissidents to bypass state-controlled print media; direct-dial telephone makes it difficult for a state to control interpersonal voice communication; and satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels. ... [T]he extraordinary living standards produced by free-enterprise capitalism cannot be kept secret. |
• Speech to UK advertising executives, London, 1 September 1993, reportedly written by Irwin Stelzer.
This led to Chinese authorities banning privately-owened satellite dishes, setting back seriously Murdoch's aspirations to exploit the Chinese market. |
