Evgeny Morozov, The Guardian; Privacy activists are winning fights with tech giants. Why does victory feel hollow?
"Something similar is likely to happen in other domains marked by recent moral panics over digital technologies. The tech industry will address mounting public anxieties over fake news and digital addiction by doubling down on what I call “solutionism”, with digital platforms mobilizing new technologies to offer their users a bespoke, secure and completely controllable experience...
What we want is something genuinely new: an institution that will know
what parts of existing laws and regulations to suspend – like the
library does with intellectual property law, for example – in order to
fully leverage the potential inherent in digital technologies in the
name of great public good."
