Well, I'll leave it to people to decide if the top commenter, potatolicious, was right in dismissing Morozov's piece as being too long. Frankly, that's the nicest thing you can say about Morozov's takedown, which confuses "length" with "substance", unfortunately.
I have read his book aside of his many essays, so I can agree his style is lengthy - that's actually the only issue I may have. That doesn't change the fact that his arguments are well-thought and usually supported by references. You don't have to agree with him or like his style, but bringing it down to a 'TLDR' is silly, his writing has more substance than the usual blogosphere content posted around and it's worth taking those few minutes of overhead (instead of scrolling some blabbering on twitter f.ex.).
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You must be talking about this thread, relating to his attack of Tim O'Reilly as a "Meme Hustler"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5472759
Well, I'll leave it to people to decide if the top commenter, potatolicious, was right in dismissing Morozov's piece as being too long. Frankly, that's the nicest thing you can say about Morozov's takedown, which confuses "length" with "substance", unfortunately.
This was O'Reilly's response, FWIW: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+TimOReilly/posts/Q8EqCQJstBE
I have read his book aside of his many essays, so I can agree his style is lengthy - that's actually the only issue I may have. That doesn't change the fact that his arguments are well-thought and usually supported by references. You don't have to agree with him or like his style, but bringing it down to a 'TLDR' is silly, his writing has more substance than the usual blogosphere content posted around and it's worth taking those few minutes of overhead (instead of scrolling some blabbering on twitter f.ex.).