Not only that, it has created the opportunity for new forms of authoritarianism to emerge online. An authoritarianism that threatens to usher in a long night of repression and darkness. So far, I’ve identified 3 authoritarian movements (significant departures from the forms we’ve seen in the past), each dangerous in their own way: An open source insurgency, a socially networked orthodoxy, and an algorithmic lockdown.

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