Silicon Valley likes to promise ‘digital socialism’ – but it is selling a fairytale

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Silicon Valley likes to promise ‘digital socialism’ – but it is selling a fairytale
Evgeny Morozov, The Guardian, 2015/03/02
One of the things I've learned over the years is to resist letting positions I hold be defined by their opponents. One of those positions happens to be socialism, and while it is true it has evolved over the years, it nonetheless resembles nothing like what is discussed by Evgeny Morozov in this column for the Guardian, or by Kevin Kelly in the 2009 article Morozov is responding to. More...