I want to prevent us reifying 'the Internet' as something to be preserved like some people want to preserve the American Constitution… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“the spirit of the Internet.” This spirit is a powerful myth concocted by overzealous legal activists, and the sooner we bury it,… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the Internet as a threat in part because they see the U.S. government behind… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the Internet brims with spamming, scamming and identity fraud. Having someone wipe out your hard drive or… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be there for ever. Democratic… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
My homeland of Belarus is an unlikely place for an Internet revolution. The country, controlled by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko since 1994,… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
[People] somehow assume that the Internet is going to be the catalyst of change that will push young people into the streets,… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
When we get the remote Russian village online, what will get people to the Internet is not going to be reports from… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
With the internet we are facing more or less a very similar story. It does offer virtually limitless access to entertainment and… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the internet as a threat in part because they see the US government behind… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“The most effective system of Internet control is not the one that has the most sophisticated and draconian system of censorship, but… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
We can now with Google Glasses record everything around us, and we can make sure that nothing is ever forgotten because everything… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Simply getting a country's population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
In addition to their 'do no evil' motto, Googlers have always been guided by another, much less explicit philosophy: 'computational arrogance.' — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
However revolutionary it may be, the Internet still hasn't altered the basic law of human communication: Being nice to your interlocutors is… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult,… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Many of us were a little to early to assume that the most logical uses of the internet in authoritarian states would… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
I draw a distinction between freedom of the internet and freedom via the internet. In the first case, it's making sure cyberspace… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“If Amazon’s dream of a world without gatekeepers becomes reality, then the company itself will become a powerful gatekeeper.” — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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