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My own country, Thailand, receives up to 900 million amphetamine pills from Burma every year, and about a third of our regular drug
users
are below the age of 16.
Facebook had six million
users
in 2006; today, it has 1.4 billion.
Google doesn’t merely point
users
to existing information on the Web; it also collects information that it doesn’t share about its users’ behavior.
A Google that is accountable to its
users
– searchers, advertisers, investors, and governments – is likely to be a better outfit that does more good in today’s relatively open market.
Rather than stand on the sidelines and proclaim censorship evil, it is picking its way through the landmines in China – competing with a politically well-connected rival and politely letting its
users
know that they aren’t always getting the whole picture.
I am also an investor in and advisor to AnchorFree, the company that offers Hotspot Shield, a publicly accessible virtual private network (VPN) that allows
users
to keep their browsing private, whether they are concerned about thieves stealing their banking details or about governments monitoring where they surf.
We have about one million
users
monthly in China (out of seven million worldwide).
Baidu, the indigenous Chinese rival to Google, benefits in many ways both from government support and from home-team nationalism among
users.
The next steps are up to the Chinese
users
themselves.
Intravenous drug
users
– especially heroin addicts – had turned public spaces in Zurich and other Swiss cities and towns into needle parks.
The Swiss did not respond with the kind of neglect that Russia’s government has shown so far toward its heroin and HIV epidemics – more than two million drug
users
and an estimated one million people living with HIV, over 60% of them infected while sharing contaminated needles.
Health professionals took the lead in a campaign to press the government – through the mechanisms of direct democracy – to shift its focus from arresting and punishing drug
users
toward public-health policies that are based on scientific evidence of what works.
And some policymakers question whether the Swiss approach has focused drug policy too much on public health and too little on dealing with the poverty and social exclusion faced by drug
users.
Portugal’s decision in 2001 to decriminalize possession of illegal drugs led not only to more drug
users
in treatment (rather than in prison), but also a significant decrease in the number of drug
users
newly infected with HIV.
First, drug
users
in Europe are switching to cocaine from heroin.
If all of Colombia’s farmers stopped growing coca tomorrow, unrestrained demand by the world’s 13 million cocaine
users
would quickly generate as much cultivation somewhere else.
Clearly, the ultimate challenge is to prevent drug abuse and to treat and rehabilitate drug
users
successfully.
Drug use there is a third of the European average – the result of decades of consistent policies (irrespective of changes in government) that combine tough punishment of dealers and comprehensive treatment for
users.
Meanwhile, the unwarranted blocking and filtering of Web sites has grown more common in many countries, as has aggressive surveillance of Internet
users.
Nonetheless, China's more than 35 million internet
users
- a number that doubles every nine months - have access to a wide variety of previously censored information, including sites that are officially banned.
The service now has 500,000
users
and offers a Syrian curriculum to service the 50% of that country’s refugee youth who are out of school.
As attackers become more sophisticated, they send better-crafted emails, sometimes impersonating trusted sources that lure unwary
users.
Together, these three companies have 500-900 million active monthly
users
in their respective sectors.
Most important, China is at the frontier of mobile payments, with more than 600 million Chinese mobile
users
able to conduct peer-to-peer transactions with nearly no fees.
Freelancer.com has more than 17 million
users
worldwide.
Most recently that debate has focused on encryption: whether technology companies should be able to develop programs that encrypt their users’ messages so securely that no one but their intended recipients – not even governments – can read them.
Both countries have epidemics driven by injecting drug
users
(IDUs) who share needles and syringes, the most efficient way to transmit HIV.
The success of such programs also depends on establishing needle/syringe exchanges at convenient locations, both to provide clean equipment and to draw
users
into the healthcare system.
Indeed, police regularly harass
users
(and people who help them), making matters worse.
Sites such as Friendster and MySpace sought extra profit by compromising the privacy of their users, and were instantly punished as
users
deserted them to relatively safer competitors like Facebook and Twitter.
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