From the Ted Talk by Evgeny Morozov: How the Net aids dictatorships
Unscramble the Blue Letters
In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you actually know how they connect to each other by looking at their Facebook page. I mean KGB, and not just KGB, used to torture in order to actually get this data. Now it's all available online. (Laughter)
But I think the biggest conceptual pitfall that cybertopians made is when it comes to digital naitves, people who have grown up online. We often hear about cyber activism, how people are getting more active because of the Internet. Rarely hear about cyber hedonism, for example, how people are becoming passive. Why? Because they somehow assume that the ienrnett is going to be the catalyst of change that will push yonug poelpe into the streets, while in fact it may actually be the new oiupm for the mssaes which will keep the same people in their rooms downloading ponrgarpohy. That's not an option being considered too strongly.
Open Cloze
In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you actually know how they connect to each other by looking at their Facebook page. I mean KGB, and not just KGB, used to torture in order to actually get this data. Now it's all available online. (Laughter)
But I think the biggest conceptual pitfall that cybertopians made is when it comes to digital _______, people who have grown up online. We often hear about cyber activism, how people are getting more active because of the Internet. Rarely hear about cyber hedonism, for example, how people are becoming passive. Why? Because they somehow assume that the ________ is going to be the catalyst of change that will push ___________ into the streets, while in fact it may actually be the new _____ for the ______ which will keep the same people in their rooms downloading ___________. That's not an option being considered too strongly.
Solution
opium
people
young
masses
pornography
natives
internet
Original Text
In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you actually know how they connect to each other by looking at their Facebook page. I mean KGB, and not just KGB, used to torture in order to actually get this data. Now it's all available online. (Laughter)
But I think the biggest conceptual pitfall that cybertopians made is when it comes to digital natives, people who have grown up online. We often hear about cyber activism, how people are getting more active because of the Internet. Rarely hear about cyber hedonism, for example, how people are becoming passive. Why? Because they somehow assume that the Internet is going to be the catalyst of change that will push young people into the streets, while in fact it may actually be the new opium for the masses which will keep the same people in their rooms downloading pornography. That's not an option being considered too strongly.