The Net Delusion : The Dark Side of Internet Freedom (Hardcover)

from jobinsonlis

Way too long but absolutely fascinating for anybody interested in digital activism and information access.

from Sullywriter

The recent revelations about the extent of NSA surveillance makes this book about the many paradoxes of so-called "Internet freedom" all the more relevant.

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The Net Delusion is powerful, and it gains power as it rolls through its 320 pages. It took quite a while to lock me in; the first hundred pages gave me little I didn't already know. I admit I began to get fidgety, but the next couple of hundred pages gave me a ton of insight, building on what ca...

from MichaelDC

Interesting take on the dangers of technology worship. Essentially, Morozov writes if the Internet can be used for spreading democracy and freedom, as many politicians and talking heads say, it can and is used for anti-democratic ends as well. Morozov provides many (MANY) examples of this, and mo...

from carlosemferreira

A complex, well-written and insightful study of how the Internet is (NOT) setting the world free - quite the opposite in places. That what Evgeny Morozov writes is both fair and accurate there can't be much doubt; that the world and especially Westerners want to do anything about it is another di...