Sixty years ago, Habermas established his academic reputation by writing The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, in which he sorted out the historical formation of the public sphere in capitalist societies. More recently, his new book, The New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and the Deliberative Politics, seems to echo the question of whether the public sphere has changed with traditional mass media into streaming and self published media on digital interfaces. Habermas argues that the challenge of digital media is to weaken the guardianship of the ′responsible′, thus blurring the distinction between the private and public spheres and allowing rightwing populism to flourish in digital media. Habermas overlooks the fact that under the digital interface there is not a face to face relationship between subjects, but a relationship of interaction mediated by the protocols and rules of the interface, i. e. the eth ics of dialogue between subjects gradually gives way to the ethics of the digital interface.