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Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history

http://www.ted.com While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however...  
 
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skruvisx (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Hundreds of Twitter accounts hacked bit . ly/2T8NBn
violaineroe (2 months ago) Show Hide
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Stop saying "right" at the end of each sentence.
kappnel (2 months ago) Show Hide
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HA! you noticed that too? Did you do a "right" count? Maybe if I have an abnormally boring day I'll do it....It would make a good drinking game.
1800ghostdance (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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@violaineroe hahahaha so many times
cooldude12345657 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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twitter is by far better than myspace and facebook.trust
Contradiction11 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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The Illuminati will love the media explosion. Everything can seem like one big conspiracy, hiding as one big conspiracy.
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the way we express are selves through these mediums is what is the true revolution.

the last story he spoke of strikes a cord on why Americas gov't isn't the best. We are not a Democracy but a Republic. This means that the people only have an influential say; we do not have the final say. If so many people were against FISA then in a true Democracy then that is what the States stand would be. However we are a Republic and the leaders we choose ultimatly have the final say on nearly everything
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we have a 'democracy' in the uk (supposedly) , which can be ok for getting permission to put a shed in the garden,or dog shit bins in the local park,(even then,only if your lucky)..but it doesnt make the slightest bit of difference what the public thinks when it comes to the real big issues, like our part in the unprovoked attacks on iraq and afghanistan.

democracy or republic, i dont think it makes much difference these days tbh..same shit in a different box
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