Swiftly:
-- Roger McNamee
In his book "Zucked," Roger McNamee tells the tale of democracy under attack. He says, "In Myanmar, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, and the United States, your life might have been threatened." He is referring, of course, to killings planned and co-ordinated over the Internet.
But there are more insidious effects, as well. Democracy itself is under attack in Turkey, the United States, and to some extent in the United Kingdom, Germany, and certainly in Russia. There is more to this story than the Internet actors such as Facebook and Google to which McNamee refers, and he is aware of this. Yet he is also right in describing a vast social experiment. The Internet, says Roger McNamee needs to be reconstructed from the ground up in order to preserve democracy. Bold statement, indeed. Yet true?
In every country with internet access, platforms have transformed society for the worse. We are running an uncontrolled evolutionary experiment, and the results so far are terrifying.
-- Roger McNamee
In his book "Zucked," Roger McNamee tells the tale of democracy under attack. He says, "In Myanmar, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, and the United States, your life might have been threatened." He is referring, of course, to killings planned and co-ordinated over the Internet.
But there are more insidious effects, as well. Democracy itself is under attack in Turkey, the United States, and to some extent in the United Kingdom, Germany, and certainly in Russia. There is more to this story than the Internet actors such as Facebook and Google to which McNamee refers, and he is aware of this. Yet he is also right in describing a vast social experiment. The Internet, says Roger McNamee needs to be reconstructed from the ground up in order to preserve democracy. Bold statement, indeed. Yet true?
