It was a Saturday in 2015, perhaps 2016. I was still “normal” back then, still convinced that technology was inherently positive, potentially revolutionary, still naive enough to believe that the internet liberated by definition. I was browsing books at Waterstones on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow—one of my little guilty pleasures since I landed in Scotland—when I came across “The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom” by Evgeny Morozov. I picked up the book, went downstairs, sat in the in-house café and started reading. And I went into crisis. His thesis demolished, piece by piece, the narrative of the “Twitter Revolution” of 2009 in Iran. In the book, Morozov cited an analysis by Golnaz Esfandiari, an Iranian journalist for Foreign Policy, who had done something simple but, these days, almost revolutionary: journalism (if you're laughing at this point, you're good people...). She had looked at where the tweets with #iranelection actually came from during the 2009 protests. And the answer? From the West. Not from Iran. Wait, what? Yes, exactly. It was theater. Western self-celebration masquerading as solidarity.