Keen On… Evgeny Morozov: Why America Didn’t Win the Cold War and Other Net Delusions (TCTV)
According to Stanford University visiting fellow Evgeny Morozov, the United States government is suffering from what he calls the “net delusion” of allowing the Internet to determine its foreign policy. In The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, Morozov argues that the Internet isn’t encouraging democracy overseas and thus the State Department is mistaken to promote what Hilary Clinton has called her “Internet Freedom Policy.”
So is Morozov correct to say that most bloggers aren’t dissidents and that the Internet isn’t helping global democracy? And if he is, indeed, right – then how should US foreign policy adapt to a digital age in which secret policemen are increasingly skilled in the use of social media tools to maintain the power of authoritarian regimes?
Morozov on the net delusion
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Morozov on the US government’s mistaken Internet agenda
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Morozov on the right foreign policy for the digital age
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