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Václav Havel, The Power of the Powerless as quoted in https://academyofideas.com/2021/10/smartphones-and-social-media-a-mass-surveillance-dystopia/
Václav Havel (... 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident,[1][2] who served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. He was the first democratically elected president of either country after the fall of communism. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays, and memoirs. ... / His political activities brought him under the surveillance of the StB secret police, and he spent multiple periods as a political prisoner,[3] the longest of his imprisoned terms being nearly four years, between 1979 and 1983. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel