The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.

Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.

There is this huge Roma problem in Europe. There are a lot of Romas who are discriminated against in countries like the Czech Republic or Hungary. They are an ethnic minority that in Europe everyone loves to hate.

The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters.

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

I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?'

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.