Facebook killed the internet star: reflections on radical media

Years before the Snowden exposés in 2013, internet-savvy activists knew full well of the surveillance possibilities of the web, and the necessity of online privacy protection for political groups (and indeed everyone). And despite the almost-utopian air which accompanied the arrival of some of the new internet behemoths – eg Google and Facebook – only the gullible couldn't see that these might easily turn out to be surveillance apparatus of the kind Orwell couldn't have dreamt of.
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