Your review of Evgeny Morozov’s The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom (New York: Public Affairs, 2011) strikes a chord with me (“Caught in the Net,” January 8, 2011). He dubs the idea that the Internet is fomenting democracy “cyber-utopianism.” Thus he calls for “cyber-realism,” which would acknowledge the abuse of the Internet by authoritarian regimes around the world. To this purpose, he catalogues many examples of abuse by the authorities. For instance, social networks offer a cheaper and easier way to identify dissidents than more traditional forms of surveillance. He shows that the Internet can be quite effective in sustaining authoritarian regimes, as well. Government-backed bloggers can cast doubts on criticisms more effectively than official responses, for example. But I am a bit disappointed not to find in your book review any discussion of the most common form of Internet abuse: persecuting dissidents for libel and insult. That is my own story in Croatia, where government repression shields widespread corruption and organized crime by government officials, and where prosecution is left to corrupt courts.