Ahmadinejad Wants to Friend You
As the eyes of the world turn to the events sweeping across the Middle East, the role of new media is coming under scrutiny. Can social media forces be usurped by authoritarian regimes as easily as they have motivated burgeoning democracies?
According to Evgeny Morozov, author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, the answer is yes.
Instead of a hand looming over the red button for a nuclear weapon launch, imagine it’s an Internet kill switch, said Morozov, who spoke at the Actors’ Gang in Culver City. …
