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Cyber-utopians overstate the revolutionary potential of the Internet

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Cyber-utopians overstate the revolutionary potential of the Internet
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Social media create "weak ties", insufficient for high risk activism
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Social media do not help revolutions to happen or succeed
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Technology gurus engage in quasi-religious discourse about Internet
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The Internet for democracy hype is made of naive cliches
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Web campaigns disengage youth from protests
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The internet has become the "world's town square"
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This denunciation of cyber-utopianism is a typical straw man argument
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Cyber-utopians understate the potential of Internet for repression
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Internet won't necessarily lead to a net increase in political freedom
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