Evgeny Morozov Quotes

There are so many classic Big Brother warning books: the Internet is a horrible, controlling thing, as if it has a consciousness or political agenda.

We've used the power that we have had to listen in to everybody so that we could better promote our agenda

The fact that Facebook presents facial recognition programmes as a desirable development, well, that in itself is a decisive step toward fascism, as far as I'm concerned.

It's really weird watching the government watch me.

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

I don't like being victimized by a machine or by other people's demands on my time. I become resentful by feeling forced or incentivized to live a life I don't want to live. That rage in general prevents me from entirely becoming enslaved by technology.

We have a free society, and the totalitarian states are dungeons. We have totally different methods of population control…. We can’t control people so we have to control what they think.

It may be that by watching everywhere we go, by watching everything we do, by analyzing every word we say, by waiting and passing judgment over every association we make and every person we love, that we could uncover a terrorist plot, or we could discover more criminals. But is that the kind of society we want to live in?

It is so obvious that we are constantly monitored and manipulated both in advertising and in politics.

It is the nature of government and of technology to establish control.

People everywhere face the threat of control by government and technology.

Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how to avoid it.

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.

Big Brother doesn't like all these Little Brothers looking at it.

For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.

People are leaving trails everywhere they go; automated web crawlers tell you an awful lot about their social activities. The flow of information in fundamentally unobtrusive ways into social control organisations has risen dramatically.

I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.

Big Brother is watching... look busy.

It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.

There is growing use of government intrusion into your creative space…. The government is able to see more deeply into our intellectual lives.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

... too Orwellian to contemplate, they've gone way too far.