Accurate, Focused Research on Law, Technology and Knowledge Discovery Since 2002

Democracy, Civil Liberties and the Internet – Challenges to Freedom Abound

WSJ: The Digital Dictatorship Evgeny Morozov on the myth of the techno-utopia. – “It’s fashionable to hold up the Internet as the road to democracy and liberty in countries like Iran, but it can also be a very effective tool for quashing freedom…For example, while the American public is actively engaged in a rich and provocative debate about the Internet’s impact on our own society—asking how new technologies affect our privacy or how they change the way we read and think—we gloss over such subtleties when talking about the Internet’s role in authoritarian countries.”

Sorry, comments are closed for this post.