The Internet deserves better critics than Morozov. He seems to throw a bunch of shade up and see what sticks. Some of it’s aimed in the right directions, but frequently for the wrong reasons. His actual policy proposals are pretty terrible (he thinks Google should delist pages with inaccurate content, for instance). And he’s shrill without being smart: he mocks “makers” over semantics (because software isn’t a thing, or something). I very much want critics of Internet triumphalism – that’s part of what I get out of boingboing – I just don’t think Morozov is a particularly smart version of this.
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