Cory Doctorow's latest Guardian column offers a detailed review of Evgeny Morozov's new book The Net Delusion, which seeks to debunk so-called" cyber-utopianism" and the idea that the internet can be used as a force for freedom.

In Doctorow's words,"the world's oppressive regimes (including supposedly free governments in the west) are availing themselves of new technology at speed, and the only way for activism to be effective in that environment is to use the same tools."

Read"We need a serious critique of net activism."