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Sun 3 Oct, 2010 09:42 pm
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Could authoritarian regimes, and also democratic governments working with private companies, be perfecting a new form of authoritarianism, working with the grain of Internet communication and exploiting the intimate entwining of online communication with the everyday lives of citizens?
"working with the grain" is a saying meaning whatever you are doing is easier to do that way.
The saying derives from woodwork. Smoothing wood with a plane (woodwrking handtool) is easier and a better job results when you cut with the grain insted of across the grain of the wood.
Wood grain is the way individual cells in the timber line up.
@oristarA,
"Working with the grain" comes from woodworking, when you sand or stain a piece of wood, you follow the striations of the wood and sand or stain the piece in the same direction.
@dadpad,
Sorry didn't see your post..
Excellent!
Thank you all.
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