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Evgeny Morozov [0] has talked [1] and written extensively [2] about the capacity for social media to entrap those the regime deems social undesirables, and also
by pizza 11y ago
Evgeny Morozov [0] has talked [1] and written extensively [2] about the capacity for social media to entrap those the regime deems social undesirables, and also about the naiveti of those in Silicon Valley who don't realize this capacity of their technology (insert Oppenheimer world-eater quote here...)
From what I understand of my own family's experience, it is safe to say that far fewer butchers would have discovered safe havens in Rwanda (such as my grandmothers' -- my muzungu father calls it the Anne Frank house of Kigali. I never noticed the bullet holes littered throughout the bricks in her compound until my latest visit...) through their own self-determination, if the locations had not been broadcast on government radio channels... sigh
[0] http://www.evgenymorozov.com http://www.evgenymorozov.com
[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/evgeny_morozov_is_the_internet_what_orwell_feared?language=en https://www.ted.com/talks/evgeny_morozov_is_the_internet_wha...
[2] See "To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism" by Evgeny Morozov