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We Need A Serious Critique Of Net Activism
Submitted by Robert Fredericks on Tue, 2010-01-26 04:00
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"At its core, there is some very smart stuff indeed in The Net Delusion. Morozov is absolutely correct when he forcefully points out that technology isn't necessarily good for freedom – that it can be used as readily to enslave, surveil, and punish as it can to evade, liberate and share. Unfortunately, this message is buried amid a scattered, loosely argued series of attacks on a nebulous 'cyber-utopian' movement, whose views are stated in the most general of terms, often in the form of quotes from CNN and other news agencies who are putatively summing up some notional cyber-utopian consensus."
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