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Internet Quotes by Evgeny Morozov
- [People] somehow assume that the Internet is going to be the catalyst of change that will push young people into the streets, while in fact…
- When we get the remote Russian village online, what will get people to the Internet is not going to be reports from Human Rights Watch.…
- In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you know how they…
- The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.
- The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.
- To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.
- As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy…
- Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action…
- For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more difficult…
- However revolutionary it may be, the Internet still hasn't altered the basic law of human communication: Being nice to your interlocutors is a good way…
- In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating…
- My homeland of Belarus is an unlikely place for an Internet revolution. The country, controlled by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko since 1994, was once described…
- North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways…
- The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is…
- The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just…
- There is no doubt that the Internet brims with spamming, scamming and identity fraud. Having someone wipe out your hard drive or bank account has…
- There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful tool for innovation,…
- This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the…
- The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory…
- It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the Internet as a threat in part because they see the U.S. government behind the Internet.
More Internet Quotes
- You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
- I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me… — Margaret Atwood
- Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet. — Sebastian Bach
- Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to… — Spencer Bachus
- The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. — John Perry Barlow
- In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate… — Bob Barr
- The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat. — Dave Barry
- The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. — Dave Barry
- Internet does not equal sodium pentothal. — Drew Barrymore
- I get mail; therefore I am. — Scott Adams
- I'm surrendering myself to the realities of the Internet. — Scott Adams
- When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of… — Diane Abbott