Secularizing the Tech Debate
By Geoff Shullenberger
Dissent magazine

...we must decide the future of network technology and our relation to it through reasoned collective deliberation.

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[The idea] that technological “disruption” is progressive and unavoidable has served to stifle or limit debate about the social, economic, and political effects of such developments.

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Internet evangelists help consolidate the technocratic capture of democratic institutions and legitimize the expansion of corporate and state surveillance.