A lot of the hopes that technology is going to fundamentally transform our politics and really allow us to have a form of direct control and accountability that we haven't historically had I think is promised on the idea of order of magnitude difference. You know in a complicated technical world it's impossible to have an informed opinion about every issue that touches on you but it is possible to have aninformed opinion that you're very passionate about, he says.
In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Cory Doctorow, science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing, about measures we can take to preserve the freedom of the Net - while preserving our own.
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