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“Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, in a speech to Cambridge students in March 2011, it is also the greatest spying machine the world has ever seen. It is not a technology that favours freedom of speech. It is not a technology that favours human rights. It is not a technology that favours civil life. Rather it is a technology that can be used to set up a totalitarian spying regime, the likes of which we have never seen.”
― John Naughton, From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What You Really Need to Know about the Internet

“Internet is special because it’s a powerful enabler of disruptive innovation – defined as ‘a process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves ‘up market’, eventually displacing established competitors’.”
― John Naughton, From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What You Really Need to Know about the Internet

“Of the top twenty sites in the world, all but three were owned by US-based companies.”
― John Naughton, From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What You Really Need to Know about the Internet

“Now, a decade and a half later, after re-reading Orwell and Huxley, we need to ask ourselves a tough question: is the Internet really unique in being immune to censorship or control?”
― John Naughton, From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What You Really Need to Know about the Internet