189 Quotes by Evgeny Morozov

In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you know how they connect to each other by looking at their Facebook page. KGB ... used to torture in order to get this data.

Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so that instead of discussing the public interest, we are discussing the interests of individual software developers, while claiming that this is a discussion about "innovation" and "progress," not "accountability" or "security."

While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.

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

This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.

Google’s vision is tools that will do things for you.

If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.