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Tech Panic: Why We Shouldn't Fear Facebook and the Future by [Robby Soave]

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From award-winning journalist and author of the “methodical, earnest, and insightful” (The Guardian) Panic Attack, an examination of recent kneejerk calls to regulate Big Tech from both sides of the aisle.

Not so long ago, we embraced social media as a life-changing opportunity to connect with friends and family all across the globe. Today, the pendulum of public opinion is swinging in the opposite direction as Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, and similar sites are being accused of corrupting our democracy, spreading disinformation, and fanning the flames of hatred. We once marveled at the revolutionary convenience of ordering items online and having them show up on our doorsteps, sometimes overnight. Now we fret about Amazon outsourcing our jobs overseas, or building robots to do them for us.

Here, with insightful analysis and in-depth research, Robby Soave explores some of the biggest issues animating both the right and the left: bias, censorship, disinformation, privacy, screen addiction, crime, and more. Far from polemical, Tech Panic is grounded in interviews with insiders at companies like Facebook and Twitter, as well as expert analysis by both tech boosters and skeptics—from Mark Zuckerberg to Josh Hawley. Readers will learn not just about the consequences of Big Tech, but also the consequences of altering the ecosystem that allowed tech to get big. Offering a fresh and crucial perspective on one of the biggest influences of the 21st century, Robby Soave seeks to stand athwart history and yell, Wait, are we sure we really want to do this?

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"...Soave raises worthy free speech concerns. This sober account strikes a persuasive note of caution." —Publishers Weekly

“With Robby Soave’s Tech Panic, we finally have a book that cuts to the chase. This reads like a chat with a very smart friend who took the time to think all of these questions through—and who isn’t beholden to any one side.” —Dana Perino, former White House press secretary and Fox News anchor

"At long last, a refreshing dose of sanity and common sense about big tech. In Tech Panic, Robby cuts through the political hyperbole to expose a core truth—Americans enjoy greater access to the marketplace of ideas than at any time in human history, and that's a very good thing indeed." —David French, senior editor at The Dispatch and author of Divided We Fall

"I have a certain admiration for those who have taken Zuckerberg’s side in the last week, notably Robby Soave, author of Tech Panic: Why We Shouldn’t Fear Facebook and the Future.” —Niall Ferguson, Bloomberg Opinion

About the Author

ROBBY SOAVE is an associate editor at Reason.com. His commentary on Rolling Stone's reporting on sexual assault at the University of Virginia won him a 2015 Southern California Journalism Award. A columnist for The Daily Beast, his writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Post, CNN, USA Today, and Newsweek. He was named in Forbes' 2016 ""30 Under 30"" list for law and policy. He is a regular guest on Fox News, CNN, and syndicated radio programs. --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

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Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 28, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Robby Soave is an associate editor at Reason magazine and author of Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump. He enjoys writing about culture, politics, education policy, criminal justice reform, television, and video games. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, U.S. News & World Report, The Orange County Register, and The Detroit News. In 2016, Forbes named him to the "30 Under 30" list in the category of law and policy. In 2017, he became a Novak Fellow at The Fund for American Studies. He also serves on the D.C. Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Soave won widespread recognition for setting the record straight in two infamous cases of media malpractice: the 2014 Rolling Stone hoax article about sexual assault at the University of Virginia, and the 2019 incident involving Catholic high school students at the Lincoln Memorial. He won a Southern California Journalism Award for discrediting the former; his writings about the latter prompted several mainstream media outlets to apologize for having wrongly smeared the boys.

A Detroit native, and a graduate of the University of Michigan, Soave now lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Carrie, and their two Yorkies, Caesar and Oliver.

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Loving Life

Thoughtful, easy read on social media

Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2021

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This book is an easy but thought-provoking read on whether society has become overly wary of social media's impact on society. I don't agree with every conclusion, but Soave challenges pre-conceived notions and has become a must-read in this space.

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Jeff and Tonya

Solid Examination Of The Issues.

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2021

I've read some of the author's work over the last year in particular on his primary employer's website (Reason.com), and that is actually how I found out about this book. So I knew roughly what to expect here, and that is pretty well what I got: a fairly solid look at the issues surrounding tech, elections, privacy, free speech, and other related issues from a moderate libertarian (small "L", to be clear, since these things matter in circles that will likely be most open to reading this book) perspective that is mostly well-reasoned from that particular mindset. As more of an avowed Anarchist (and former Libertarian Party official and candidate, though I myself was more moderate in that era) and software development professional, eh, Soave allows government a bit too much intervention into tech companies than I'm personally comfortable with. Even here, however, most who are more aligned with the left/ right divide in the US are going to be hit fairly equally and largely find various arguments here that they will (and sometimes do) champion and others that they will (and often do) despise. Which in the age of hyperpartisanship and barely-there "reasoning", is generally a sign of someone who *has* actually seriously and critically thought about the issues he is speaking of. An excellent work that really should be read by anyone trying to urge government action regarding technology companies, and thus one that quite a few should consider as we begin the march into the mid-term elections of 2022 in just a few more months. Very much recommended.

PS: The reason for the star deduction? Light bibliography, at least potentially corrected in a non-Advance Reader Copy version of the book. The ARC, however, had a bibliography that clocked in at just 9% of the text, vs a "more normal" range of 25-33% in my experience across almost 650 books since Jan 1, 2019 alone.

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