Personalization can be very useful in some contexts but…

“If Amazon’s dream of a world without gatekeepers becomes reality, then the company itself will become a powerful gatekeeper.”

— Evgeny Morozov

I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care about yoga, yogurts and…

— Evgeny Morozov

For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more…

— Evgeny Morozov

To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.

— Evgeny Morozov

As Barbara Streisand discovered, adopting a militaristic posture against a tech-savvy mob of civil libertarians is not going to be of much help: Many…

— Evgeny Morozov

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

— Evgeny Morozov

In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and…

— Evgeny Morozov

Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.

— Evgeny Morozov

When we get the remote Russian village online, what will get people to the Internet is not going to be reports from Human Rights…

— Evgeny Morozov

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

— Evgeny Morozov

Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.

— Evgeny Morozov

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

— Evgeny Morozov

“Thomas Friedman, the New York Times foreign affairs columnist, in his typical fashion, trivialized—and did much to popularize—the “dictator’s dilemma” fallacy by coining a…

— Evgeny Morozov

If WikiLeaks were a for-profit company, determining its real value would be a nearly impossible task.

— Evgeny Morozov

The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not…

— Evgeny Morozov