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Is the Internet “Neutral”?

Since deciding to start my own blog I’ve been thinking about the effects the technology I’m employing here is having on humanity as a whole.  Yesterday, I ran into Evgeny Morozov, who’s currently an Open Society Institute Fellow, and he was thinking about the same issues I was, having just read a post on Ethan Zuckerman’s blog where Ethan wrote:
It’s my strong sense that internet technology isn’t neutral. It isn’t equally useful for participatory and repressive movements – it’s inherently participatory and open, and inevitably easier to deploy for conversations than for a theoretical fascist movement leader. Continue reading