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Evgeny Morozov is a visiting scholar in the Liberation Technology Program at Stanford University and a Scwhartz fellow at the New America Foundation. He is also a blogger and contributing editor to Foreign Policy Magazine. He is a former Yahoo fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University and a former fellow at the Open Society Institute, where he remains on the board of the Information Program. His book The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom was published by PublicAffairs in January 2011.

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Is The Internet Closing Our Minds Politically?
A group of experts faced off on the motion "When It Comes to Politics, the Internet Is Closing Our Minds" at an Intelligence Squared U.S. debate on April 17 in New York City.
April 25, 2012 in NPR

Why Hillary Clinton Should Join Anonymous
Evgeny Morozov: "It's hard to deny the intellectual ambiguity of “Internet freedom” when among its staunchest defenders are idealistic hacktivists from Anonymous and hard-nosed diplomats from the U.S. State Department—two groups that otherwise disagree on everything else. Ironically, both may end up ..."
April 23, 2012 in Slate Magazine (blog)

"Turing's Cathedral" by George Dyson – review
Evgeny Morozov gives a positive account of George Dyson's history of the modern computer.
March 25, 2012 in The Guardian (blog)

Beware the unholy alliance of state and internet
Evgeny Morozov: "'Surveillance means safety.' This is the argument wherever and whenever governments seek new powers to monitor their citizens. Proposed legislation in the UK to enable police and intelligence services to access emails, Skype calls and Facebook messages is ..."
April 3, 2012 in Financial Times (subscription)

How automated journalism and loss of reading privacy may hurt civil discourse
Evgeny Morozov: "If there is one unambiguous trend in how the Internet is developing today, it's the drive toward the personalization of our online experience."
March 19, 2012 in Slate Magazine (blog)

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