Twitter. Useless?

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The Revolution Will Be Twittered
Mock not. As the regime shut down other forms of communication, Twitter survived. With some remarkable results. Those rooftop chants that were becoming deafening in Tehran? A few hours ago, this concept of resistance was spread by a twitter message.

That a new information technology could be improvised for this purpose so swiftly is a sign of the times. It reveals in Iran what the Obama campaign revealed in the United States. You cannot stop people any longer. You cannot control them any longer. They can bypass your established media; they can broadcast to one another; they can organize as never before.
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It's increasingly clear that Ahmadinejad and the old guard mullahs were caught off-guard by this technology and how it helped galvanize the opposition movement in the last few weeks. That's why they didn't see what those of us surgically attached to modems could spot a mile away: something was happening in Iran. If Drum is right, the mullahs believed their own propaganda about victory until reality hit them so hard so fast, they miscalculated badly and over-reached.

This generation will determine if the world can avoid the apocalypse that will come if the fear-ridden establishments continue to dominate global politics, motivated by terror, armed with nukes, and playing old but now far too dangerous games. This generation will not bypass existing institutions and methods: look at the record turnout in Iran and the massive mobilization of the young and minority vote in the US. But they will use technology to displace old modes and orders.
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maybe not.
 


no doubt:

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in a nutshell -- it's important because it's revolution without outside military intervention, facilitated by free communication.

big fuckin deal, honest.
 
I think it's pretty fuckin awesome actually. Fuck the media monopolization and government control.

Any TRUE American should rejoice in this. This right here is truly BY THE PEOPLE.
 
That's why China shut down twitter/facebook/flickr during the week of June 4th (tiananmen square protect).

and now the Chinese government want to install a filtering program to all the computer in China
 
turbolapp said:
I think it's pretty fuckin awesome actually. Fuck the media monopolization and government control.

Any TRUE American should rejoice in this. This right here is truly BY THE PEOPLE.
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It's a pity that a lot aren't, due to years of propaganda associating a repressed people with their fucked up Government.
A lot of the chatter I've seen in the last day or so is people just going "Meh, fucking towel heads, hope they nuke themselves" sorta talk. Really sad, considering that Iran is basically a lynch pin for the region.
 
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