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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… — Evgeny Morozov
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… — 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 difficult… — Evgeny Morozov
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… — Evgeny Morozov
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… — Evgeny Morozov
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… — Evgeny Morozov
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… — Evgeny Morozov
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… — 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 just… — Evgeny Morozov
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… — Evgeny Morozov
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,… — Evgeny Morozov
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… — Evgeny Morozov
As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways. — Geoff Mulgan
Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have… — Lynda Resnick
The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras… — Howard Rheingold
The liberation children experience when they discover the Internet is quickly counteracted by the lure of e-commerce web sites, which are customized to each individual… — Douglas Rushkoff
As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and… — Douglas Rushkoff
Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of… — Douglas Rushkoff
Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and other… — Douglas Rushkoff
Since the dawn of the Internet, I have always operated under the assumption that if the government or corporations have technological capability to do something,… — Douglas Rushkoff
While we may blame the Internet for the ease with which conspiracy theories proliferate, the net is really much more culpable for the way it… — Douglas Rushkoff
A foolhardy lot, we accepted it all, as we always do, never asked: "What is going to happen to us now, with this invention of… — Doris Lessing
Internet porn makes everything more reasonable -- once you've realized there is a massive subculture of upwardly mobile people who think it's erotic to see… — Chuck Klosterman
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. — Penn Jillette
TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public. — Douglas Coupland

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