tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5138475034562973576.post6766566050051923150..comments2023-08-27T16:38:43.365+02:00Comments on Wikiprogress ProgBlog: The Revolution IS Currently and Will be …. Facebooked?ProgBlog moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15192525217343558645noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5138475034562973576.post-80413406685931898422011-02-03T17:02:45.132+01:002011-02-03T17:02:45.132+01:00“Facebook has an unparalleled database about the d...“Facebook has an unparalleled database about the desires, the likes, the preferences… of people in the world (including the US) bigger than the FBI. He [Zuckerberg, Head of Facebook] said: Muller [Head of FBI] is lusting after that and he’ll come with subpoenas.”<br /><br />— Daniel Ellsberg, speaking on WikiLeaks, the Internet and Democracy, from The Real News.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09366639621252481284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5138475034562973576.post-12843934435129153842011-02-02T07:52:42.953+01:002011-02-02T07:52:42.953+01:00{Digital networks have acted as a massive positive...{Digital networks have acted as a massive positive supply shock to the cost and spread of information, to the ease and range of public speech by citizens, and to the speed and scale of group coordination.}<br /><br />Perhaps in the more advanced countries, a simple notice from Twitter or found on Facebook is enough to "move people" physically to demonstrate their political disillusionment. Key word: perhaps. Why? <br /><br />Because it seems that the more affluent a society becomes, the more inbred can be its political apathy.<br /><br />For which, in the poorer countries I suspect that the media-tools mentioned have no more of an impact than word-of-mouth and maybe less.<br /><br />The Internet has been an important means for promulgating the values of democracy, which in the two countries in questions (Tunisia and Egypt) were almost non-existent or at the very least a sham. People must understand that elsewhere other people have more elevated (progressive?) values and, as a result, live in a very different manner.<br /><br />This is what prompts them in disgust and leads to such demonstrations. Both Tunisia (French speaking) and Egypt (mostly English-speaking) had access to site in French and English that promoted democratic values -- thus promoting the notion that, elsewhere, life was more free.<br /><br />This was indeed a revolutionary innovation in promoting social progress in the matter of democracy -- a principle that we in developed countries (whatever that means) take much too much for granted. <br /><br />And thus the ingrained political apathy that is noticeable amongst its populations.<br /><br />Let's not overly glamorize the Internet. It too has its limits.Lafayettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09508857628978326526noreply@blogger.com