Evgeny Morozov

The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.

— Evgeny Morozov

Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say,…

— Evgeny Morozov

You actually see liberals checking 'Fox News,' if only to know what the conservatives are thinking. And you're seeing conservatives who venture…

— Evgeny Morozov

While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their…

— Evgeny Morozov

I think governments will increasingly be tempted to rely on Silicon Valley to solve problems like obesity or climate change because Silicon…

— Evgeny Morozov

Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think…

— Evgeny Morozov

A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as…

— Evgeny Morozov

Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.

— Evgeny Morozov

My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as…

— Evgeny Morozov

Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it…

— Evgeny Morozov

There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how financial markets work. Our entire modern…

— Evgeny Morozov

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental…

— Evgeny Morozov

If China's expansion into Africa and Russia's into Latin America and the former Soviet Union are any indication, Silicon Valley's ability to…

— Evgeny Morozov

[People] somehow assume that the Internet is going to be the catalyst of change that will push young people into the streets,…

— Evgeny Morozov

There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful…

— Evgeny Morozov

North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but…

— Evgeny Morozov

“The most effective system of Internet control is not the one that has the most sophisticated and draconian system of censorship, but…

— Evgeny Morozov

“To reject solutionism is to transcend the narrow-minded rationalistic mindset that recasts every instance of an efficiency deficit [...] as an obstacle…

— Evgeny Morozov

It's true that virtually all new technologies do trigger what sociologists would call 'moral panics,' that there are a lot of people…

— Evgeny Morozov

The message I'm trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that look like decisions about technology actually…

— Evgeny Morozov

Technological defeatism - a belief that, since a given technology is here to stay, there's nothing we can do about it other…

— Evgeny Morozov

I went to SXSW in 2011. God, that was awful. I mean, I only went because my publisher wanted me to promote…

— Evgeny Morozov

The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy…

— Evgeny Morozov