"The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen."
— Julian Assange (Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet, 2012)
#internet #surveillance #totalitarianism
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