This is about the challenges that the government has with social media "All governments have large data challenges. They have become even more challenging in this period of fiscal austerity. The use of Linked Data techniques allows governments to publish more, reuse more and combine more data for a fraction of the cost of older methods. "

Facebook is helping U.S. citizens get back to work and find new jobs. "Facebook is partnering with the Department of Labor and other government agencies to help unemployed Americans get back to work, the company announced today in Washington, D.C"

they don't want the government because they don't want people to be easily hacked "Two emerging technology trends in the public sector - social networking and cloud computing - have now been combined in IBM's recently released SmartCloud Social Collaboration for Government, a private cloud computing service for government agencies. "

"The first is social media is much more than a fad (which you have probably read about, as well.) It's not just that Twitter has been at the heart of the Arab Spring and other social and political developments of recent years. Nor that Facebook has acquired so many millions of users all over the world. It's the fact that people use these new media in such a variety of ways it becomes impossible to distinguish business from pleasure. Wikipedia, for instance, has shown that people not only long to discover, they want to share. The psychological effect on business and public life has been immense; in fact I would say that there is a new business climate of openness"

if canidates have a Facebook or twitter page they are more popular than canidates that dont. "I have a Web Page and a political Facebook link for my campaign. It is important to get our goals for Caldwell out to the public. I do not have a personal Facebook due to the nature of my husbands' job. I prefer to not have pictures and a day by day accounting of my life on the World Wide Web"

if they dont have high speed internet they cant see and responded to what the goverment is doing! "Technology's ability to meet the needs of both citizens and government is obvious. However, with varying degrees of citizen capacity and resources, which technologies are best suited? Will citizens without high-speed access to the internet ultimately have less ability to engage with government or partake in its services? How do we address the access and knowledge divide?"

The goverment controls the radio and other things in iran "The government runs the broadcast media, which includes three national radio stations and two national television networks, as well as dozens of local radio and television stations. In 2000 there were 252 radios, 158 television sets, 219 telephone lines, and 110 personal computers for every 1,000 residents. "

China doesn't want people to spread rumors about them over the web. "Chinese authorities have renewed the threat that internet users who use the internet to make statements that the government deems to be false will be punished."