Internet and Democracy—Re-examining the Core Assumptions

Location:	OSI-Washington, D.C.
Event Date:	April 23, 2009
Speaker:	Evgeny Morozov

Open Society Fellow Evgeny Morozov examined the core assumptions underlying our understanding of the impact that the Internet has on democracy, in the context of both authoritarian states and established democracies.

The discussion focused on the threats and dangers that the Internet poses to open society and ways in which authoritarian governments and extremist movements are using the web to their own advantage.

For background, see Morozov's article "Texting Towards Utopia," in the Boston Review, and his Foreign Policy blog net.effect.

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