When someone at the State Department proclaims Facebook to be the most organic tool for promoting democracy the world has ever seen - that's a direct quote - it may help in the short run by getting more people onto Facebook by making it more popular with dissidents.
Evgeny MorozovMost other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.
Evgeny MorozovUniversities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.
Evgeny MorozovThere is this absurd assumption that the revitalisation of the public sphere is always a good thing. I think people tend to confuse 'civic' and 'civil,' and they believe that everything that is done by citizens is necessarily a good thing because you build a network, an association.
Evgeny Morozov