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Democracy and the Internet—Re-examining the Core Assumptions

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Location: OSI-New York
Event Date: April 30, 2009
Speaker: Evgeny Morozov

Open Society Fellow Evgeny Morozov scrutinized the impact the Internet has had on governance and free expression, within both authoritarian states and established democracies. Morozov focused on the threats and dangers that the Internet poses to open society and discussed ways in which various authoritarian governments and extremist movements are using the web to their own advantage.

Leonard Benardo, director of the Open Society Fellowship Program, introduced the event.

The images from Morozov's accompanying PowerPoint presentation are available for download below.

For background, see Morozov's article "Texting Towards Utopia," in the Boston Review.

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