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It's not edicts from above, it's limiting what you say and how you say it because you fear repercussions. As twisted as it sounds, the release of Fifa's probe into possible ethics violations in bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, felt like just that.

Chief investigator Michael Garcia saw his 350-page report distilled to a summary of just 42 pages, half of them generic boilerplate.

The other half were mostly either long-established facts (like Jack Warner's shenanigans) or infractions deemed to be minor. Garcia has already lodged an appeal with Fifa, believing that Hans-Joachim Eckert, the head of the adjudicatory branch of the ethics committee, misrepresented his findings.

(What this actually means remains to be seen ... technically, the guy who would be judging the merit of Garcia's appeal would be Eckert himself which, of course, wouldn't make sense. Though, in Fifa world, you never know.)

What appears obvious, though, is that if Garcia's report was meant to serve as evidence of Fifa's renewed transparency, it did not serve its purpose at all. Forget stripping Qatar of 2022 or Russia of 2018. That was always going to be far-fetched. The goal was for Fifa to show it could run a credible investigation of itself. It failed to do so.

Nobody has come out of this with any more confidence that Fifa can self-police. If anything, matters are even murkier. From witnesses refusing to cooperate to entire bid committees proving to be "extremely unhelpful" (Eckert did not name them, but was clearly referring to Spain-Portugal). From former executive committee members who simply "could not be found" to computers being destroyed. Not to mention the explanation as to why the report could not be made public; to this day, according to Eckert, only four people, including Garcia, have seen it.

Indeed, you can rewind it all the way back to the appointment of Garcia. Since 2005 he has been persona non grata in Russia because, in his previous job as a district attorney, he had prosecuted a Russian weapons dealer in a trial that Moscow deemed "politically motivated". Was he really the best choice to investigate Russia when his past meant he would not be allowed into the country?

Ultimately, the probe - or, rather, Eckert's summary of the probe - found "issues" with eight of the nine bids for 2018 and 2022 (kudos to Belgium-Holland 2018, the only bid committee found to be whiter than white). Which raises the question: if Fifa don't emerge from this with greater credibility, why hold an investigation in the first place? Surely sticking your head in the sand - something Fifa have had no trouble doing in years past - would have been a better option than this ham-fisted affair?

Maybe he's one of those football men who has "the bug". Were David Moyes akin to the majority of his colleagues, it's safe to say he wouldn't be sitting in San Sebastian, working out how to get Real Sociedad up the table. Not when you know that if you bide your time and talk to the right people, Spurs, Newcastle or Everton might be waiting for you. A step down from his old employer, sure, but compared to "La Real" more money, more resources and more power.

Instead, he has opted for a club that have been underachieving this season, with the second lowest points-total in La Liga. They are better than that - finishing seventh last year and fourth the year before - so you'd expect them to work their way up, even with limited effort.

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Journalist Maziar Bahari, whose memoir "And Then They Came for Me" about his 118 days of imprisonment and torture in Iran has been made into the film "Rosewater," says that the frustration over the inability to control social media and the internet has driven authoritarian regimes deeper into their comfort zones of imprisoning, torturing, and murdering the messengers.

"These are analogue regimes resorting to all their old methods of suppression of information," says Mr. Bahari in a phone interview. "They are used to controlling people through imprisonment, murder, shutting down newspapers and radio stations. They can't handle what the Internet is doing in the way of generating social movements and facilitating communication."

He added, "Social media is a phenomenon that even Mark Zuckerberg himself has no idea how to control."

"So imagine being one of these authoritarian regimes," Bahari added. "They don't like to rock the boat. That's what social media is all about and it makes them very angry."

Journalists, as suppliers of internet and social media fodder are what could be referred to as Analogue Enemy Number One.

Bahari, a native of Iran, returned to the country in 2009 to cover the presidential election and the subsequent protests challenging the results that kept President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power, according to his memoir.

After shooting news video of the protests, he was arrested.

"Rosewater," named after the scent worn by Bahari's tormentor, is written and directed by "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart.

The film offers disturbing revelations of how Iranian officials chose to "weaponize" Bahari's appearance on the show, which has a large following online and on social media platforms.

The journalist participated in a comedy sketch wherein he met with a "spy" actually Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones in sunglasses in Iran. During his imprisonment, Bahari's jailers tortured him and repeatedly made reference to the show as the premise for accusing him of espionage, Bahari explained.

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'Rosewater' journalist says social media is making tyrants more dangerous (+video)

Journalist Maziar Bahari, whose memoir "And Then They Came for Me" about his 118 days of imprisonment and torture in Iran has been made into the film "Rosewater," says that the frustration over the inability to control social media and the internet has driven authoritarian regimes deeper into their comfort zones of imprisoning, torturing, and murdering the messengers.

"These are analogue regimes resorting to all their old methods of suppression of information," says Mr. Bahari in a phone interview. "They are used to controlling people through imprisonment, murder, shutting down newspapers and radio stations. They can't handle what the Internet is doing in the way of generating social movements and facilitating communication."

He added, "Social media is a phenomenon that even Mark Zuckerberg himself has no idea how to control."

"So imagine being one of these authoritarian regimes," Bahari added. "They don't like to rock the boat. That's what social media is all about and it makes them very angry."

Journalists, as suppliers of internet and social media fodder are what could be referred to as Analogue Enemy Number One.

Bahari, a native of Iran, returned to the country in 2009 to cover the presidential election and the subsequent protests challenging the results that kept President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power, according to his memoir.

After shooting news video of the protests, he was arrested.

"Rosewater," named after the scent worn by Bahari's tormentor, is written and directed by "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart.

The film offers disturbing revelations of how Iranian officials chose to "weaponize" Bahari's appearance on the show, which has a large following online and on social media platforms.

The journalist participated in a comedy sketch wherein he met with a "spy" actually Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones in sunglasses in Iran. During his imprisonment, Bahari's jailers tortured him and repeatedly made reference to the show as the premise for accusing him of espionage, Bahari explained.

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'Rosewater' journalist says fear of social media is making tyrants more dangerous (+video)