From the incomparable Evgeny Morozov at Foreign Policy:

This summer was full of technology & geopolitical news — BlackBerry, WikiLeaks, North Korean tweets — but I wasn’t exactly shocked by any of the developments. The recent announcement that Iran is working on their own national search engine did not exactly shock either but it gives your humble blogger a good excuse to reflect on the growing politicization of the Internet in general and of search space in particular.

I’ve tracked the idea of national search engines for some time — see my coverage of Russia’s plans to do the same here and of Turkey’s plans here; this summer we also heard some noises from China on that front.


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