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> We see then that the new information technology of the late modern era gave rise to both large-scale democracy and large-scale totalitari-anism. But there were crucial differences between how the two systems used information technology. As noted earlier, democracy encourages information to flow through many independent channels rather than only through the center, and it allows many independent nodes to process the information and make decisions by themselves.
Information freely circulates between private businesses, private media organizations, municipalities, sports associations, charities, families, and individuals-without ever passing through the office of a government minister.