). The Chinese practice of forcing Internet providers to assume liability for the content to which they provide access is seeping into European legal and regulatory thinking regarding the Internet.28 There is now a technological race underway between democrats seek- ing to circumvent Internet censorship and dictatorships that want to extend and refine it. Recently, dictatorships such as Iran’s have made significant gains in repression. In part, this has happened because Western companies like Nokia-Siemens are willing to sell them advanced surveillance and filtering technologies.