Jillian York asks the ever-eager Western press to take a long, cold shower and actually ask Tunisians themselves if the internet/Twitter/Facebook/Wikileaks seriously contributed to the downfall of President Ben Ali. In a word, no.
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The Supreme Leader may have nimble fingers
Is the Iranian regime trying to be a hypocritical laughing stock? A Twitter account believed to belong to Iran‘s supreme leader has triggered controversy among Iranians whose own access to social networking websites remains blocked. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the man who has the final word in Iran, has come under intense criticism from Iran’s many…
Are Twitter, Facebook and/or Google monitoring Wikileaks?
We are entering an age where the complicity of internet companies in censorship is becoming clear to many. We have allowed them to become too powerful and now they can act like this. By the way, so much for the Obama administration being any different to the Bushies over human rights, secrets and intimidation: WikiLeaks…
Department of Justice selective outrage over Wikileaks
Here’s the hypocrisy. If Iran demanded Twitter release direct messages of a user, the US government would be outraged. But of course double-standards are the name of the game here: A member of parliament in Iceland who is also a former WikiLeaks volunteer says the US justice department has ordered Twitter to hand over her…
Google, Twitter et al on path to helping US imperialism
The introductory section of this recent essay in the London Review of Books paints a disturbing nexus between the US government and major web companies. They seem worryingly comfortable assisting US foreign policy goals. Putting a nice, sexy face to occupation. Beware: On a balmy evening in April 2009 Barham Salih, then deputy prime minister…
Are we addicted or too pleased to notice?
Some startling facts: – There are now more than 500 million active Facebook users, with 50% logging on to the site on any given day. Worldwide, users collectively spend 700 billion minutes a month on Facebook. – Google’s email service Gmail ended July with 186 million worldwide users, a 22% increase from the same time…
The wannabe porn Zionist
Reclaiming what is theirs: Israel’s foreign Ministry has acquired the @Israel username on Twitter, the social networking site, from the Spanish owner of adult porn sites. The Spaniard, who now lives in Miami, Florida, is called Israel Melendez and he set up the account for free in 2007, when Twitter was still a relatively new…
MSM regulation is above the pay scale of MPs?
Sigh: The Commons is not the place for the media to be on trial over phone-hacking allegations, the former chairman of the Press Complaints Commission has told followers on Twitter. MPs are too cowardly when it comes to tackling newspapers – and that empowers their editors, Sir Christopher Meyer said. Meyer, a former British ambassador…
Don’t believe everything you read on Twitter
What connects actor John Cusack, Twitter, Fox News and shameless propaganda?
Better Tweeting ain’t gonna solve Israel’s massive image problem
This is as tragic as comical. When will the Zionist lobby realise that more “effective” PR isn’t the answer to their problems? Until Israel changes its behaviour, the label “apartheid state” will be an understatement: An Australian plan to spread good news about Israel via social media will be presented at an upcoming international Jewish…