Gormley: Democracy gone digital
In what has to be a direct rebuke to anyone who has ever called the United Nations boring and out of touch, last week the organization proved that not only can it talk tech with Generation Mac, but it has a wickedly ironic sense of humour. It hosted its annual Internet Governance Forum in Turkey, a country run by a government that hates the Internet. Though “hate” may be too gentle a word. Turkey’s elected authoritarian, Recep Erdogan, refers to social media in terms usually reserved for entities you want to torture rather than merely kill, calling it “that thing” and “the curse of society today.”
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