Book: The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
Journalist and scholar Evgeny Morozov (Stanford) wrote "The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom", published by PublicAffairs in January 2011.
According to the publisher, it is Morozov's contention that "authoritarian governments are effectively using the Internet to suppress free speech, hone their surveillance techniques, disseminate cutting-edge propaganda, and pacify their populations with digital entertainment. ... [B]y falling for the supposedly democratizing nature of the Internet, Western do-gooders may have missed how it also entrenches dictators, threatens dissidents, and makes it harder - not easier - to promote democracy. ... Morozov shows why ... 'Internet freedom' might have disastrous implications for the future of democracy as a whole."
Notwithstanding the Arab Spring ...
Journalist and scholar Evgeny Morozov (Stanford) wrote "The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom", published by PublicAffairs in January 2011.
According to the publisher, it is Morozov's contention that "authoritarian governments are effectively using the Internet to suppress free speech, hone their surveillance techniques, disseminate cutting-edge propaganda, and pacify their populations with digital entertainment. ... [B]y falling for the supposedly democratizing nature of the Internet, Western do-gooders may have missed how it also entrenches dictators, threatens dissidents, and makes it harder - not easier - to promote democracy. ... Morozov shows why ... 'Internet freedom' might have disastrous implications for the future of democracy as a whole."
Notwithstanding the Arab Spring ...
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