noteworthy wrote:
Evgeny Morozov:

Many of us have bought into the simplistic narrative -- convenient to both Washington and Silicon Valley -- that we just need more laws, more tools, more transparency.

I think there is an inherent problem with the idea that the sort of data sought by the government is the same sort of data that is sought by these private companies or that it is somehow less intrusive. There is this intellectual shortcut preferred by many commentators on this subject that seeing as you tell lots of stuff to Facebook its totally reasonable for the Government to collect other, unrelated data about you.

It is different data, and it is more intrusive data, and its not being collected from you voluntarily, and these things matter.

As far as having conversations about capitalism is concerned, I think its a bit like having conversations about physics. I hope he doesn't intend to suggest that his opinions about how things ought to work are useful.

RE: an inevitable bias