But the case to be made here is not just against Facebook; it’s a case against neoliberalism.
on Facebook being the provider of infrastructure
This is where we need to be explicit about the normative benchmarks by which we want to assess the situation. If the question is just privacy, then of course open-source is far better. But that doesn’t resolve the issue of whether we want a company like Google that already has access to an enormous…
[...] certain aspects of digital technologies are conducive to social mobilization, and others to suppression of mobilization—which of these tendencies predominates largely depends on the political dynamics in a country. I also wanted to make clear that popular discourse about these technologies wa…
our aim was to promote an independent culture of publishing and conversation—a kind of Habermasian public sphere
