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Sorry if it seems like I am beating a dead horse here, but the folks at the City Journal asked me a pen a review of Jonathan Zittrain’s new book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. Faithful readers here will no doubt remember that I have already penned a review of %
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9 months ago
9 months ago
"Zittrain, however, implies that these devices are force-feeding the masses only those services or information that a handful of corporate overlords deem worthy of mass consumption."
"But what Zittrain does in The Future of the Internet is generalize his personal preferences to the whole of cyber-society. What’s good for the ivory-tower digerati may not be what the rest of us want or need."
Bah. That's just by-the-numbers Libertarian ranting, where one hits a certain number of sneers and knee-jerks.
This is not an endorsement of Zittrain's book, which I have my own thoughts about.