WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.
Evgeny MorozovThe Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.
Evgeny MorozovAs Barbara Streisand discovered, adopting a militaristic posture against a tech-savvy mob of civil libertarians is not going to be of much help: Many of them run their own servers and blogs - and have thousands of friends on their social networks - so overzealous attempts to silence them only lead to wider dissemination of sensitive information.
Evgeny MorozovWhen it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy.
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