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The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom

Evgeny Morozov

Does the internet really spread freedom and democracy, or has authoritarianism learned to use it?

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Author
Evgeny Morozov

Why read it

  • You will question the belief that Starbucks, MTV and Google will do the rest of democracy's work
  • You will understand why tools that break through firewalls are not enough against censorship
  • You will see how authoritarian governments use the internet for propaganda and surveillance instead of fearing it

Who it is for

  • A policy maker designing programs to support internet freedom
  • A tech worker who believes connection always liberates
  • A reader of news about protests, censorship and surveillance

Contents

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. Hail the Google Doctrine
  3. The Unimaginable Consequences of an Imagined Revolution
  4. A Revolution in Search of Revolutionaries
  5. Where Are the Weapons of Mass Construction?
  6. How NASDAQ Will Save the World
  7. From Milk Shakes to Molotov Cocktails
  8. Why Hipsters Make Better Revolutions
  9. In Search of a Missing Handle
  10. WWW&W
  11. Cyber Cold War
  12. Nostalgia’s Lethal Metaphors
  13. Why Photocopiers Don’t Blog
  14. Which Tweet Killed the Soviet Union?
  15. Hold On to Your Data Grenade, Comrade!
  16. When the Radio Waves Seemed Mightier Than the Tanks
  17. How Cable Undermines Democracy
  18. The Denver Clan Conquers East Berlin
  19. The Opium of the Masses: Made in GDR
  20. Watching Avatar in Havana
  21. Online Discontents and Their Content Intellectuals
  22. The Orwell-Huxley Sandwich Has Expired
  23. Mash ’Em Up!
  24. The Trinity of Authoritarianism
  25. Dress Your Own Windows
  26. The Kremlin Likes Blogs and So Should You
  27. Dictators and Their Dilemmas
  28. When Censors Understand You Better Than Your Mom Does
  29. Time to Unfriend
  30. We Don’t Censor; We Outsource!
  31. Wise Crowds, Unwise Causes
  32. Denial-of-Philosophy
  33. Tearing Down the Wrong Walls
  34. But I Saw It on the Spinternet!
  35. Elude the Cat, Empower the Masses
  36. What Barbara Streisand Could Teach Nicolae Ceauşescu
  37. Russia’s First Pornographer Meets Russia’s Sarah Palin
  38. Fifty Cents Gets You a Long Way on the Spinternet
  39. Small Doses of Propaganda Are Still Bad for You
  40. Darning Mao’s Socks, One SMS at a Time
  41. Never Trust Anyone with a Website
  42. Why Databases Are Better Than Stasi Officers
  43. Say Hi. You’re on Camera!
  44. How to Lose Face on Facebook
  45. Think, Search, Cough
  46. The Myth of an Overprotected Activist
  47. Rainy Days of Cloud Computing
  48. On Mobile Phones That Limit Your Mobility
  49. Digital Natives of the World, Unite!
  50. Poking Kierkegaard
  51. Kandinsky and Vonnegut Are Now Friends!
  52. Killing the Slacktivist in You
  53. On the Increased Productivity of Lonely Warriors, or Why Some Crowds Are Wise but Lazy
  54. Everybody Can’t Be Che Guevara
  55. Dissidents Without Dissent
  56. No Such Thing as Virtual Politics
  57. A Dollar in a Haystack
  58. Mugabe Blogs Here
  59. A Doll with Censored Nipples
  60. Dangerous Intermediaries

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