A happy Independence day to those in the U.S.

This holiday I’m thinking of the relation of technology to freedom and politics: does technology make us freer, or less free?

A variety of views seem to exist, from authoritarians viewing technology as helping them to enforce views of an authority, to authoritarian views that technologies are dangerous to authority and they wish to suppress them [1], to views that technology takes away freedom, to views that technology enhances the freedom of the individual.

What are your views of technology and the relation it has to politics?

  1. infogalactic.com/info/Internet_kill_switch