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Against Techno-Utopianism

by Will

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

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Tags | Authoritarianism, Techno-Utopianism, technology, Twitter is stupid

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1 Louis B. { 12.31.09 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.

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