And yet in his own life, he had watched these networked technologies – filled with so much potential for solidarity, increased understanding, and new forms of internationalism – turn into tools of aggressive surveillance and social control, with Big Tech collaborating with repressive regimes, governments using ‘kill switches’ to black out the internet mid-uprising, and bad-faith actors seizing on out-of-context tweets to slander reputations and make activists markedly easier to imprison.
