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anyak2021

China mocks US 'double standards' over Capitol chaos vs Hong Kong | South China Morning... - 1 views

www.scmp.com/...rds-over-capitol-chaos-vs-hong

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  • anyak2021 on 08 Jan 21
     
    China mocked the protests at the US Capitol yesterday, comparing them to the Hong Kong protests in 2019 which the US supported. They considered this an example of failing democracy and even equated twitter blocking Donald Trump to "having no freedom of speech."
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  • mayas2021 on 10 Jan 21
     
    I disagree with the idea that blocking Donald Trump from Twitter is an example of "having no freedom of speech" because Twitter is a private company with guidelines and rules that Trump agreed to when he first made his account. He has since broken those rules, so it is completely fair that he is being kicked off the platform.
  • ethand2021 on 11 Jan 21
     
    I agree with Maya's comment. The idea that preventing the further instigation of violence is somehow turning our country into a 1984 dystopia that is run by "Big Tech".
  • erine2021 on 11 Jan 21
     
    I also agree with Maya as Twitter is a private company and no one is banning Trump from speaking to the press or any other form of public media.
  • dominickq2021 on 11 Jan 21
     
    This seems like such a poor argument by the CCP I'm not sure why they would even make it, seeing as Twitter is literally banned in China.
Karan Rai

ISIS Displaying a Deft Command of Varied Media - 4 views

www.nytimes.com/...t-command-of-varied-media.html

command media nytimes ISIS social media Kurds Iraq

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  • Karan Rai on 31 Aug 14
     
    The article that I chose to put in our Diigo list was about ISIS's ability to sway younger people in foreign countries through their use of social media. According to this article, ISIS is recruiting people from the West (USA/EU) through Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Kik and more. They are essentially the "new-age" terrorist organization because ISIS is able to very effectively use digital means to spread their message. For example, about two weeks ago, ISIS released a video in which they beheaded an American journalist. This video was posted on Facebook and Twitter and spread very, very quickly. Additionally, the article states that ISIS's recruitment message has been very successful as they have received hundreds of recruits from the West (USA/EU). Possibly as a response to the growing power of ISIS, today Germany decided to supply thousands of armaments to the Kurds in Iraq in order to fight off ISIS. I am curious to see how the USA handles in the situation with ISIS because they are obviously a group that has the capability to do a lot of damage but I doubt the USA wants to support a group that will eventually turn against them like the Mujahideen fighters in the 1980s.
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  • janh97 on 04 Sep 14
     
    This article was very concerning. It just reminds me how the promise of power will make people do unthinkable things, evident numerous times in history. It's even scarier how this movement is grabbing people's attention through casual social media settings. What the article said about people asking questions about ISIS on ask.fm and then being directed to kik for a more personal discussion was crazy!
  • caseyyamamura on 04 Sep 14
     
    It is alarming how quickly ISIS can recruit and spread information through social media. It truly is "online jihad 3.0".
  • aaron_godinez on 04 Sep 14
     
    Couldn't twitter and other online website deactivate their accounts? or block some of their posts or something, or is it a legal issue? ISIS seems appears to be an organized terrorist group. The fact that they have that kind of book keeping is strange. Their ability to publicize their actions and demands seems to put more pressure on the actions of intervening political parties.
Annie Wanless

Protest Spurs Online Dialogue on Inequity - 2 views

All the movements over the past year really demonstrate the place social media now holds in our world. It has become an important organizational role that, contrary to what some originally predicte...

Occupy Wall Street Social Networking Internet Inequity

started by alevi123 on 09 Oct 11 2 follow-ups, last by Annie Wanless on 10 Oct 11
anishakaul

India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier for U.S. Tech Companies - The New York Times - 12 views

www.nytimes.com/...ier-for-us-tech-companies.html

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  • topiarey on 29 Sep 15
     
    Really cool representation of India's rise, but also the inequality when the article mentions the "unconnected billion"
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  • quinnlewis on 29 Sep 15
     
    I found it interesting that they talked about reaching out to India to make internet widespread as a goal. Nobody seemed to question whether this was the right thing to do. Is internet and technology going to actually improve these peoples' way of life? Does technology make people happier? The assumption that technology is inherently a good thing could be damaging as India rushes into the adaptations they are making.
  • kylerussell on 29 Sep 15
     
    It will be interesting to see how India develops because its large population and liberalized economy are very different from Chinas. The growth we saw/see in China will be different from the growth we see in India due to the lack of Indian regulations. As noted in this paper, the massive population can only stimulate the economy by plugging into the industrialized workforce, however this development might likely lead to a drastic gap between the uneducated rural country side and the wealthiest tech CEOs.
  • alisimons on 29 Sep 15
     
    I found it interesting that China's strict regulations have made them less desirable for American technology companies. The article states, "Blocked from China itself or frustrated by the onerous demands of its government, companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter, as well as start-ups and investors, see India as the next best thing." It just goes to show that the government's role in the economy can influence the success of the economy.
  • charlesleesohn on 29 Sep 15
     
    It will be interesting to see what type of role India plays diplomatically as the United States begins to favor the Indian economy.
  • smowat on 29 Sep 15
     
    Interesting to see how globalization has affected indian society. From what we learned about their protective economy to their shift to a more liberalized one.
olivialum

Welcome to Italy: this is what a real immigration crisis looks like » The Spe... - 2 views

www.spectator.co.uk/...the-invasion-of-italy

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  • Well, Italy has been invaded in just this way, by migrants from many nations all coming over here from Libya. And Italy’s unelected government has agreed to take them all. This makes the Italian people — who are among the least racist in Europe — very angry. It’s hard to blame them.
  • This hugely expensive operation — ‘Mare Nostrum’ — ran until October last year and rescued nearly 190,000 people.
  • ‘They don’t want to be identified here — otherwise, under the Dublin Accords, they would have to stay in our country. So when a police officer is in front of an Eritrean who is two metres tall who doesn’t want his fingerprints taken, he can’t break his fingers, but must respect his human rights.’
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  • Last year, most were from sub-Saharan Africa.
  • It’s worth remembering here that the majority of the boat people are Muslims and reports suggest that a small number are Islamic terrorists. The terrorists of ISIS are, we know from their Twitter feeds, obsessed with taking their crusade to Rome.
  • no intention of staying in Italy
  • has been mired in recession for most of the past six years, with an official unemployment rate of 13 per cent (the real rate is probably 20 per cent) and the youth unemployment rate at a staggering 43 per cent.
  • A couple of months ago, there was much talk about UN sanctioned military action by the EU to stop the smugglers’ boats putting to sea from the Libyan coast.
  • The French have ‘closed’ their border with Italy on the Côte d’Azur in defiance of the Schengen Agreement, which guarantees free movement within member nations. They are rigorously checking trains, cars and even footpaths across the mountains, and sending any illegal migrants back to Italy; they say they have sent back 6,000 this year. The justification is simple: the Italians are failing to identify these people and distinguish economic migrants from refugees. Who can argue with that? The Austrians are doing the same at the Brenner Pass in the Alps.
  • ‘an attack against life’ akin to abortion
  • All of us feel it to be our moral duty to save lives where we can. Yet it cannot be our moral duty to ferry such vast numbers across the Mediterranean into Italy and Europe for ever, unless they are genuine refugees.
  • Prime Minister Renzi tried to pretend that the migrant crisis did not exist, but now that it has turned into an emergency he can remain silent no longer. He blames other EU countries for putting the nation before the union — in this latest meltdown of EU collective responsibility — and the British and the French in particular for getting rid of Muammar Gaddafi and turning Libya into a failed state.
  • ‘Plan B’
ellie davis

Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase? You don't get it - CNN.com - 2 views

www.cnn.com/...rushkoff-occupy-wall-street

Occupy Wall St. Media

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  • ellie davis on 13 Oct 11
     
    This article attempts to break down the Occupy Wall St. movement. Douglas Rushkoff hits on the important point that the 21st century media is not making it easy for the protestors to share unified thoughts because the media itself is not unified.
  • Jenna Mowat on 16 Oct 11
     
    The article points out that "Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken." I think that this statement is true in that Occupy Wall Street offers hope to people and an outlet to voice their unhappiness with capitalism; however, I fail to see the solutions put forth by the protests. One of the appeals to the movement is that there is not a clear leader and it was mostly organized on Facebook and Twitter. And although technology started the movement it also may pose as a challenge, because it becomes more complicated for people to understand what "the end goal" is.
mayas2021

Trump impeachment: Democrats prepare to act over Capitol riot - 1 views

www.bbc.com/...world-us-canada-55611630

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  • mayas2021 on 10 Jan 21
     
    This article from the BBC talks about how many Democrats are calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump just days before he is officially out of office. Trump has not been able to make any public statements yet because he has been suspended from Twitter and many other platforms.
  • ethand2021 on 11 Jan 21
     
    It will be interesting to see if house democrats wait until after Biden's first 100 days to impeach Trump or will they be voting on it before the inauguration. Nonetheless, I don't believe the Senate will vote until after it.
ethand2021

Sudan Is Focus of U.S. Efforts to Improve Ties With Israel - 5 views

I wonder if these efforts have been in the works for a long time or if Trump is pushing them through to improve his chances in the upcoming election.

started by dominickq2021 on 29 Sep 20 4 follow-ups, last by ethand2021 on 19 Oct 20
petertimpane

Bolsonaro: New bill will limit tech giants' power to remove content - BBC News - 1 views

www.bbc.com/...world-latin-america-58470093

Brazil Twitter Facebook Social Media

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  • petertimpane on 07 Sep 21
     
    "Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has signed a decree aimed at restricting the powers of social media companies to remove accounts and content"
  • anays2023 on 07 Sep 21
     
    Wow...this is super topical and unique especially when freedom of speech and social media in the US.
  • Kay Bradley on 27 Sep 21
     
    Yes. .. and the US has taken the position that tech companies have "freedom of speech" as well, including the freedom to prohibit material. Personally, it bothers me when corporations are redefined as equivalent to people. Really, however, corporations' speech is SO much more influential than individual people's speech.
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