Against Techno-Utopianism

by Will on December 31, 2009

A necessary dose of reality from Evgeny Morozov on Twitter, technology, and authoritarianism.

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Will writes from Washington, D.C. (well, Arlington, Virginia). You can reach him at willblogcorrespondence at gmail dot com.

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1 Louis B. December 31, 2009 at 2:45 pm: The reason why the Chinese can download Weeds or Mad Men from peer-to-peer networks is not because the Chinese government can no longer police the web. It’s because watching Weeds and Mad Men is what young people living under contemporary authoritarians are supposed to do.

Bread and circuses…

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