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29 Oct 09

Twitter vs. Tyrants: Remarks by Evgeny Morozov « iRevolution

      • [N]ew media will power all political forces, not just the forces we  like.  Many of the recent Western funding and media development efforts have  been aimed at creating what’s known as, new digital public spaces, on the  assumption that these new digital spaces would enable the nascent actors or  civil society to flourish on blogs, Twitter and social networks.
      • So in a  sense, promoting this new digital spaces entails similar risks to promoting  free elections.  It’s quite possible we may not like the guys who win.
    • One of his examples to this is Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood bloggers. He of course does not know the details and the real size of the MB blogs, or what the MB generally is going through recently, or how the MB bloggers have been playing catchup with the Kifaya/lefty blogsphere from the very beginning. - on 2009-10-29
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  • We have to  realize that authoritarian governments themselves have developed extremely  sophisticated strategies to control cyberspace and often those go beyond  censorship.  It’s a mistake to believe that these governments wouldn’t be able  to manipulate these new public spaces with their own propaganda or use them to  their own advantage.
    • Which is the entire idea of mass movements. By the same rationale, we should ban elections because it can bring fascists to power - on 2009-10-29
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28 Oct 09

Arab Media & Society - The end of the beginning: The failure of April 6th and the future of electronic activism in Egypt

Page 6, a bit on the way forward. Still no hint of improvements to the tools themselves.

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6April2008 Internet Egypt Activism

Arab Media & Society - The end of the beginning: The failure of April 6th and the future of electronic activism in Egypt

  • A focus on Facebook also appears to have missed the apparent shift of online dissent from blogs to Twitter. As Hossam El-Hamalawy puts it, “the migration is not happening to Facebook, it’s happening to the microblogs.”[25] He adds, “Facebook is one of the outlets I have, but the heavyweights are not using Facebook.” The heavyweight bloggers El-Hamalawy refers to were skeptical of the April 6th movement and its potential, even before the first strike. As blogger Demagh MAK puts it, “The thing is that it’s just easier to use Twitter than a blog. You are in the middle of a demonstration and someone is killed or arrested -- you can’t leave the demonstration and write a blog. One is killed two arrested; you can just send it by Twitter and everybody now knows.”[26] And in fact, it was Twitter that served as the most important clearinghouse for information regarding the events of April 6, 2009.


    • This is temporary and linked to mobile updates. Mobile status updates are only a part of a general-purpose social network that can make any real effect - on 2009-10-28
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  • For starters, a sophisticated registration-and-tracing system is now  in place for mobile phones, allowing the government to track users, interfere with their signals, and shut down large-scale attempts to text message. The Egyptian government successfully blocked the routes of activists’ text messages during the 2009 strike.
    • Any sources for this? - on 2009-10-28
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Arab Media & Society - The end of the beginning: The failure of April 6th and the future of electronic activism in Egypt

A few quotes on why Internet activists and observers think 6 April failed. At page 4 and hardly any point related to tools design

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6April2008 Egypt Internet Activism

  • Ahmed Maher himself is alleged to have sought cash from Freedom House, an organization believed to have ties to the US foreign security apparatus. Rumors of CIA involvement in the April 6th movement crippled the activists’ credibility at a critical juncture and turned the group’s Facebook page into a battleground. Group leaders denied they had worked with Freedom House and reaffirmed their commitment to barring foreign involvement in the movement, but the damage appeared to have already been done.[18] One activist told me that while opposition forces are happy to accept technical assistance from foreign promoters of democracy, the acceptance of cash from organizations with known agendas can be deadly for the public credibility of organizers.[19]
  • Ethan Zuckerman points to the problem of “serial activists”, who jump from cause to cause and join group after group – Gaza, April 6th, freeing Ayman Nour – without ever making a real investment of time or energy in any of them.[21]
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18 Oct 09

Tell Israel: Free the Shministim!

"FREE THE SHMINISTIM – ISRAEL'S YOUNG CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS. The Shministim are Israeli high school students who have been imprisoned for refusing to serve in an army that occupies the Palestinian Territories. December 18, 2008 marked the launch date of a global campaign to release them from jail."

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Zionism Israel Palestine War Activism

16 Oct 09

الحقيقة والوهم حول حرب أكتوبر 1973 | مركز الدراسات الاشتراكية - مصر

  • و من حسن الحظ أن الحركة الجماهيرية "المحدودة" كانت تفهم أكثر مما يطرحه الأستاذ علي هنا فتنبأت بان يتخذ النظام الحرب وسيلة للاستسلام و أطلقت وقتها المقولة "يا خوفي من يوم النصر ... ترجع سينا و تضيعي يا مصر"
13 Oct 09

State to award social networking grants in Middle East, Africa - Nextgov

  • The State Department recently unveiled a pilot program that will award up to $5 million in grants to expand the use of social networking technologies in the Middle East with the goal of increasing citizen engagement and civic participation.



    In an announcement released on Sept. 25, the department said it will award five organizations between $500,000 and $2.5 million to expand the availability of social networking and new media capabilities in the Middle East and North Africa. The program is sponsored by the Middle East Partnership Initiative, part of the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the State Department.

12 Oct 09

adagio for spellz: tribute to a dream... broken

انطباعات عن أزمة القضاة 2006 و نشطاء الإنترنت و كفاية، و إحباط من تصريحات أحمد مكي

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Egypt Blogs Judiciary Activism Kifaya

03 Oct 09

Facebook | Ahmad Badawy's Photos - احتفالية حركة 7 مليون

"حركة 7 مليون حركة حقوقية للمطالبة بحقوق المعاقين بكافة و مختلف أنواع اعاقتهم فى مصر

الاحتفاية فى 2 أكتوبر بدأت بديش بارتى و بعد كدة مسيرة على كوبرى قصر النيل

كالعادة المسيرة كانت حضارية و صامتة و الأمن مكانش له أى علاقة بالتحضر لأنه بيتصرف على أن المواطن المصرى مجرم لابد من تقييده بكل الطرق

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Egypt Disability Activism

03 Sep 09

Police adopt low profile as 1,000 Climate Camp activists set up base | Environment | The Guardian

This year's location remained a secret to all but a handful of organisers until more or less the moment the first trucks arrived. Within minutes, activists had erected manned scaffolding tripods designed to thwart police dispersal, and began sealing off the site with temporary metal fencing.

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London ClimateChange Anarchism Activism

12 Aug 09

Twitter is Not An Emergency Broadcast System

  • Twitter co-founder Evan Williams said specifically in one of the meetings that TechCrunch posted notes from that "Twitter is not an alert system."



    Those same documents made it clear that the Twitter Terms of Service are subject to extensive revision as well. It wouldn't be a surprise at all to see those Terms changed to prohibit use of Twitter for emergency broadcast purposes.

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