When someone at the State Department proclaims Facebook to be the most organic tool for promoting democracy the world has ever seen… — 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
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
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
The newspaper offers something very different from Google's aggregators. It offers a value system, an idea of what matters in the world.… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
In Google's world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
A lot of the geeks in Silicon Valley will tell you they no longer believe in the ability of policymakers in Washington… — 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
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
“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
