The Revolution Will Be Twittered

Post by dagobart » Mon, Jun 15, 2009, 3:16 AM UTC

jazzyb wrote: post #13

swombat wrote: post #4

How will Twitter self-organisation fare if the Iranian Revolutionary Guard decides to start shooting? It's great that the Iranian people can self-organise despite all the attempted censorship of the government, and certainly the free flow of information is a powerful tool in the hands of the people... but guns are powerful tools too. It's also curious why they did not clamp down on Twitter. After all, the Chinese gov…

"...perhaps there should be a non-profit that exists for the sole purpose of providing rapidly changing and shifting anonymising proxies to people everywhere, to make it so that it is effectively impossible for any government in the world to block something like Twitter." Check out tor ( http://www.torproject.org/ ). It's slow, but it's the closest thing we have to that right now.

Post by Lol_Lolovici » Mon, Jun 15, 2009, 8:21 AM UTC

idlewords wrote: post #28

Lol_Lolovici wrote: post #22

It's interesting that something that already happened at least once is suddenly much more interesting because it involves the Islamic world. This was done before in Moldavia ( http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/04/inside-moldovas/ ) but it was not that interesting for the media then because it wasn't Muslims and nobody wanted to anger Russia at that moment.

Moldova, not Moldavia. You've actually got it backwards - the Twitter angle was hyped pretty hard by the media during the Moldovan protests, even though only a small handful of protesters used the service. These kind of bromides about [information technology of the day] enabling a new kind of revolution are as old as the hills - I remember hearing similar stuff about fax machines/email during the Bosnian war - and ty…