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Evgeny Morozov (Russian: Евгений Морозов, Belarusian: Яўгені Марозаў, born in 1984 in Soligorsk, Belarus) is a writer and researcher from Belarus who studies political and social implications of technology. He was named one of 28 most influential Europeans by Politico in 2018.

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Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.

China, Degree, Degrees, Government, Like, Technology

Faster roads are not always safer roads - and virtually all societies, democratic or authoritarian, prefer safety over speed, even if many of their citizens enjoy fast driving.

Citizens, Driving, Fast, Safety, Virtually

Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't.

Goal, Loan, Making, Noble

My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else.

Affiliate, Causes, Narcissistic, People, Selfish, Simple

As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.

Band, Devastating, Growing, Relies, World

Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved.

Crime, Might, Mixed, Studies, Study, Surveillance Cameras

If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.

Arrest, Authority, Plan, Revolution, Want

For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.

Idols, Innovation, Selfishness, Silicon, Valley

There is this huge Roma problem in Europe. There are a lot of Romas who are discriminated against in countries like the Czech Republic or Hungary. They are an ethnic minority that in Europe everyone loves to hate.

Country, Czech Republic, Europe, Hate, Problem, Romas

In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating this data and presenting it in easy-to-browse formats, allowing humans to pursue more analytical tasks.

Assist, Data, Formats, Number, Numbers, Police

The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively.

Book, Browsing, Listening, Reading, Watching

I'm rarely invited to start-up parties, but who cares about their trinkets and apps anyway?

Party, Who Cares, Apps, Parties, Invited, Cares

I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very idealistic fellow who thought that he could use blogs, social networks and new media to help promote democracy, human rights and freedom of expression.

Democracy, Director, Expression, Media, Ngo, Rights

The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.

Democracy, Empower, Empowering, Fact, Groups

We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.

Hypocrisy, Kind, Life, Play, Political, Thought

Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be there for ever. Democratic accountability will not be prevalent. You cannot file a public information request about Google.

Accountability, File, Google, Infrastructure, Running

I'm active on Twitter, and I love my iPad and my Kindle.

Ipads, Kindles, Active, Love, Kindle

It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the internet as a threat in part because they see the US government behind the internet. It would not be accurate to say they are reacting to the threat posed by the internet, they are reacting to the threat poised by United States via the internet. They are not reacting against blogs, or Facebook or Twitter per se, they are reacting against organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy funding bloggers and activists.

Democracy, Internet, Threat, Twitter, Facebook, Reacting

Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U. S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats.

Age, Diplomacy, Doors, Government, Subject, Whenever

The message I'm trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that look like decisions about technology actually are not at all about technology - they are about politics, and they need to be scrutinized as closely as we would scrutinize decisions about politics.

Closely, Decision, Political, Send, Technology

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