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Morozov, a native of belarus, is a tremendously gifted young cyberpolicy scholar affiliated with stanford university and the new america foundation. Born to a mining family in belarus, evgeny himself was once a firm believer in the power of new media to liberate oppressed people. Despite the merits of his argument, to save everything, click here. How not to liberate the world evgeny morozov argues that our utopian, internetcentric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy we were promised that the internet would set us free. In 20102012 i was a visiting scholar at stanford university and a schwartz fellow at the new america foundation.
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