The Guardian (London)

... But it does add to a growing body of cyber-sceptic literature: recent examples include Nicholas Carr's The Shallows, warning that our cognitive faculties decay as we skim distractedly from one webpage to another, and Evgeny Morozov's The Net Delusion, which rebuts fashionable notions of the web as a tool for advancing democracy. ...

... Authoritarian governments, as Morozov shows in this dense and surgically argued book, are not stupid. Keyword blocking and URL filtering (with technologies happily supplied by American and European companies) are only a small part of the story: net tech also enables easier and cheaper surveillance (which will learn from ad-tracking technologies developed in the west) and infiltration of dissident organisations. ...

Evgeny Morozov's The Net Delusion is the first book from the Belarusian-born foreign policy writer and blogger. Morozov has built a reputation as a sharp ...

Daniel Levy, a former member of the Israeli negotiating team at Taba, said the documents reveal the extent to which the Palestinians remained wedded to a strategy that had failed to deliver peace over the previous 15 years. ...

Another strand of thought in the field of cyber-scepticism is found in The Net Delusion, by Evgeny Morozov. He argues that social media has bred a ...

A remarkable young Belarussian activist-analyst, Evgeny Morozov, has just challenged the lazy assumptions behind such politico-journalistic tags in a book ...

Rubin dismissed claims by Stanford Univeristy scholar Evgeny Morozov that Silicon Valley's big technology firms were last month visited by FBI director Robert Mueller and asked to install 'back doors' to information on their customers, or that the US government may have had an interest in expanding Google's technology into internet activity in Iran. ...

On the one side are governments who, as Evgeny Morozov argues in his new book, The Net Delusion: How Not To Liberate The World, are exploiting the internet ...

As Stanford University visiting scholar Evgeny Morozov recently explained, that appears to vindicate the decision by Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin to require all public institutions to replace proprietary software with open-source alternatives by 2015. ...

In Evgeny Morozov's analysis, Cohen's email set a dangerous precedent,convincing the Iranian leadership, and many other authoritarian regimes around the world, that the US government was in cahoots with Silicon Valley and that the internet was being turned into an extension of politics by other means. ...