Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom by Rebecca MacKinnon

Author:Rebecca MacKinnon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Politics & Government, Computers & Technology, Censorship, General & Reference, Technology, Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780465029297
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2012-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

Facebookistan and Googledom

In May 2010, Hong Kong–based university professor and communications scholar Lokman Tsui decided to delete his Facebook account. In a blog post explaining his decision, he likened Facebook to a country run by an authoritarian, paternalistic government that claims to be acting in its people’s best interest:

Allow me to make a wild analogy, one I believe is not entirely out of left field. Many people know that there is censorship in China. Many people also tell me that 1) the poor Chinese must feel really repressed or 2) they must be okay with it. But if that’s the case, who in their right mind can be okay with censorship? They must be brainwashed.

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