{"id":38666,"date":"2011-02-07T02:22:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T02:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/as-morozov-points-out-dont-expect-corporations-2\/"},"modified":"2011-02-07T02:22:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T02:22:13","slug":"as-morozov-points-out-dont-expect-corporations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/as-morozov-points-out-dont-expect-corporations-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As Morozov points out, don\u2019t expect corporations like Google to liberate anyone anytime soon. Google did business in China for four years before economic conditions and censorship demands \u2014 not human rights concerns \u2014 forced it out. And it is telling that both Twitter and Facebook have refused to join the Global Network Initiative, a pact that Morozov describes as \u201can industrywide pledge &hellip; to behave in accordance with the laws and standards covering the right to freedom of expression and privacy embedded in internationally recognized documents like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.\u201d Morozov urges the cyberutopians to open their eyes to the fact that the asocial pursuit of profit is what drives social media. \u201cNot surprisingly,\u201d he writes, \u201cthe dangerous fascination with solving previously intractable social problems with the help of technology allows vested interests to disguise what essentially amounts to advertising for their commercial products in the language of freedom and liberation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/06\/books\/review\/Siegel-t.html?pagewanted=2\">Book Review &#8211; The Net Delusion &#8211; By Evgeny Morozov &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Morozov points out, don\u2019t expect corporations like Google to liberate anyone anytime soon. Google did business in China for four years before economic conditions and censorship demands \u2014 not human rights concerns \u2014 forced it out. And it is telling that both Twitter and Facebook have refused to join the Global Network Initiative, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[780,781,1539],"class_list":{"0":"post-38666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-quote","5":"hentry","6":"tag-edp","7":"tag-emergent-digital-practices","9":"post_format-post-format-quote"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-a3E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}