WHEN thousands of young Iranians took to the streets in June 2009 to protest against the apparent rigging of the presidential election, much of the coverage in the Western media focused on the protesters’ use of Twitter, a microblogging service. ‘This would not happen without Twitter,
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
Caught in the Net
Stephan: This is a very interesting counterview of a commonly accepted assumption, and I think it has much to recommend it.
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom. By Evgeny Morozov. PublicAffairs; 408 pages; $27.95. Published in Britain by Allen Lane as 'The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World