The Internet Is Not the Answer (40 page)

26 Joe Pompeo, “The
Huffington Post
, Nine Years On,”
CapitalNewYork.com
, May 8, 2014.

27 Ibid.

28 Mathew Ingram, “The Unfortunate Fact Is That Online Journalism Can’t Survive Without a Wealthy Benefactor or Cat GIFs,” GigaOm, September 22, 2013.

29 Julie Bosman, “To Stay Afloat, Bookstores Turn to Web Donors,”
New York Times,
August 11, 2013.

30 Teddy Wayne, “Clicking Their Way to Outrage,”
New York Times
, July 3, 2014.

31 Ben Dirs, “Why Stan Collymore’s Treatment on Twitter Is Not Fair Game,” BBC Sport, January 23, 2014.

32 Raphael Minder, “Fans in Spain Reveal Their Prejudices, and Social Media Fuels the Hostilities,”
New York Times
, May 22, 2014.

33 Jeff Jarvis, “What Society Are We Building Here?,” BuzzMachine, August 14, 2014.

34 Farhad Manjoo, “Web Trolls Winning as Incivility Increases,”
New York Times
, August 14, 2014.

35 Ibid.

36 Amanda Hess, “Why Women Aren’t Welcome on the Internet,” Pacific Standard, January 6, 2014.

37 Simon Hattenstone, “Caroline Criado-Perez: ‘Twitter Has Enabled People to Behave in a Way They Wouldn’t Face to Face,”
Guardian
, August 4, 2013. For Twitter’s lack of response, see Jon Russell, “Twitter UK Chief Responds to Abuse Concerns After Campaigner Is Deluged with Rape Threats,” The Next Web, July 27, 2013.

38 “Blog Death Threats Spark Debate,” BBC News, March 27, 2007.

39 Deborah Fallows, “How Women and Men Use the Internet,” Pew Internet and American Life Project, December 28, 2005.

40 Stuart Jeffries, “How the Web Lost Its Way—and Its Founding Principles,”
Guardian
, August 24, 2014.

41 Alex Hern, “‘We Need the Mary Beard Prize for Women Online,’ Author Claims,”
Guardian,
August 7, 2014.

42 Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, “The Data of Hate,”
New York Times,
July 12, 2014.

43 Emily Bazelton, “The Online Avengers,”
New York Times Magazine
, January 15, 2014.

44 Jon Henley, “
Ask.fm
: Is There a Way to Make It Safe?”
Guardian
, August 6, 2013.

45 Lizette Alvarez, “Felony Counts for 2 in Suicide of Bullied 12-Year-Old,”
New York Times
, October 15, 2013.

46 Ben Wedeman, “Facebook May Face Prosecution over Bullied Teenager’s Suicide in Italy,” CNN, July 31, 2013.

47 Schumpeter, “Anonymous Social Networking: Secrets and Lies,”
Economist
, March 22, 2014.

48 David Gardner, “Tribes and Sects Rule as the Old Order Crumbles,”
Financial Times
, July 31, 2014.

49 Sam Jones, “Jihad by Social Media,”
Financial Times
, March 28, 2014.

50 Rod Nordland, “Iraq’s Sunni Militants Take to Social Media to Advance Their Cause and Intimidate,”
New York Times
, June 28, 2014.

51 Shiv Malik and Michael Safi, “Revealed: The Radical Clerics Using Social Media to Back British Jihadists in Syria,”
Guardian
, April 15, 2014.

52 Harriet Sherwood, “Israel and Hamas Clash on Social Media,”
Guardian
, July 16, 2014.

53 Lisa Chow, “Top Reviewers on Amazon Get Tons of Free Stuff,” NPR,
Planet Money
, October 29, 2013.

54 David Streitfeld, “Give Yourself 5 Stars? Online, It Might Cost You,”
New York Times
, September 22, 2013.

55 Charles Arthur, “How Low-Paid Workers at ‘Click Farms’ Create Appearance of Online Popularity,”
Guardian
, August 2, 2014.

56 Tim Wu, “Little Lies the Internet Told Me,”
New Yorker
, April 17, 2014.

57 Pippa Stephens, “Trust Your Doctor, Not Wikipedia, Say Scientists,” BBC Health News, May 27, 2014.

58 Tom Simonite, “The Decline of Wikipedia,”
MIT Technology Review
, October 22, 2013.

59 Ibid.

60 Anne Perkins, “Whose Truth Is Wikipedia Guarding?,”
Guardian
, August 7, 2014.

61 James R. Hagerty and Kate Linebaugh, “Next 3-D Frontier: Printed Plane Parts,”
Wall Street Journal
, July 14, 2012.

62 Stuart Dredge, “30 Things Being 3D Printed Right Now (and None of Them Are Guns),”
Guardian
, January 29, 2014.

63 Chris Anderson,
Makers: The New Industrial Revolution
(New York: Crown, 2012), p. 12.

64 Eliza Brooke, “Why 3D Printing Will Work in Fashion,”
TechCrunch
, July 20, 2013.

65 Alice Fisher, “3D-Printed Fashion: Off the Printer, Rather Than Off the Peg,”
Guardian,
October 12, 2013.

66 Rebecca Hiscott, “Will 3D Printing Upend Fashion Like Napster Crippled the Music Industry?,” Mashable, March 3, 2014.

67 Katrina Dodd, “Monetize Me: Selfies, Social and Selling,”
Contagious
, May 19, 2014.

68 Alex Hudson, “Is Digital Piracy Possible on Any Object?,” BBC News, December 8, 2013.

69 Paul Krugman, “Sympathy for the Luddites,”
New York Times
, June 18, 2013.

70 Chris Myant, “Reuben Falber: Key Figure in British Communism,”
Independent
, May 31, 2006.

Chapter Seven

1 Noam Cohen, “Borges and the Foreseeable Future,”
New York Times
,
January 6, 2008.

2 Victor Sebestyen,
Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire
(New York: Pantheon 2009), p. 121.

3 Ibid.

4 Anna Funder,
Stasiland
(London: Granta, 2003), p. 57.

5 Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier,
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think
(Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2013), p. 150.

6 Andrew Keen, “Opinion: Beware Creepy Facebook,” CNN, February 3, 2012.

7 Ibid.

8 Karin Matussek, “Google Fined 145,000 Euros Over Wi-Fi Data Collection in Germany,” Bloomberg News, April 22, 2013.

9 Robert Booth, “Facebook Reveals News Feed Experiment to Control Emotions,”
Guardian
, June 29, 2014.

10 Natasha Lomas, “Facebook’s Creepy Data-Grabbing Ways Make It the Borg of the Digital World,”
TechCrunch
, June 24, 2013.

11 Patrick Kingsley, “Julian Assange Tells Students That the Web Is the Greatest Spying Machine Ever,”
Guardian
, March 15, 2011.

12 Charles Arthur, “European Watchdogs Order Google to Rewrite Privacy Policy or Face Legal Action,”
Guardian
, July 5, 2013.

13 Claire Cain Miller, “Google Accused of Wiretapping in Gmail Scans,”
New York Times
, October 1, 2013.

14 Las Vaas, “Google Sued for Data-Mining Student Email,”
Naked Security
, March 18, 2014.

15 Stefan Wolle,
Die heile Welt der Diktatur
, p. 186.

16 “The NSA’s Secret Spy Hub in Berlin,”
Spiegel Online
, October 27, 2013.

17 Ian Traynor and Paul Lewis, “Merkel Compared NSA to Stasi in Heated Encounter with Obama,”
Guardian
, December 17, 2013.

18 Duncan Campbell, Cahal Milmo, Kim Gengupta, Nigel Morris, and Tony Patterson, “Revealed: Britain’s ‘Secret Listening Post in the Heart of Berlin,’”
Independent
, November 5, 2013.

19 David Sellinger, “Big Data: Getting Ready for the 2013 Big Bang,”
Forbes
, January 15, 2013. See also Ase Dragland, “Big Data, for Better or Worse: 90% of World’s Data Generated over the Last Two Years,”
SINTEF.com
.

20 Patrick Tucker, “Has Big Data Made Anonymity Impossible?,”
MIT Technology Review
, May 7, 2013.

21 Tim Bradshaw, “Wearable Devices Pump Up the Technology,”
Financial Times
, January 7, 2014.

22 “Where to Wear Your Technology? Torso to Toe,”
Wall Street Journal
, January 7, 2014.

23 Michael Chertoff, “Google Glass, the Beginning of Wearable Surveillance,” CNN, May 1, 2013.

24 Claire Cain Miller, “Privacy Officials Worldwide Press Google About Glass,”
New York Times
, June 19, 2013.

25 Tucker, “Has Big Data Made Anonymity Impossible?”

26 Neil McAllister, “You THINK You’re Watching Your LG Smart TV—but IT’S WATCHING YOU, Baby,”
Register
, November 20, 2013.

27 Chris Bryant and Henry Foy, “VW Chief Warns over Big Brother Vehicle Data,”
Financial Times,
March 10, 2014.

28 Ibid.

29 Holman W. Jenkins Jr., “When Your Car Is Spying on You,”
Wall Street Journal
, August 31, 2013.

30 Brandon Bailey, “Google’s Working on a Phone That Maps Your Physical Surroundings,”
San Jose Mercury News
, February 21, 2014.

31 Berners-Lee,
Weaving the Web
, p. 123.

32 Dan Gillmor, “The Real CES Takeaway: Soon We’ll Be Even More Connected and Have Even Less Privacy,”
Guardian
, January 10, 2014.

33 Bryant and Foy, “VW Chief Warns over Big Brother Vehicle Data.”

34 Sophie Gadd, “Five Things I’ve Learned from Being at the Heart of a Twitter Storm,”
Guardian
, December 19, 2013.