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PostSubject: Revolutions in 140 characters   Revolutions in 140 characters Icon_minitimeSat Jul 07, 2012 11:03 pm
''SOME dictators are more afraid of tweets than they are of opposing armies,'' the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, says.

Since 7 million text messages in one week in 2001 mobilised the Manila protests that ousted the corrupt Philippine president, Joseph Estrada, the idea of social media as a revolutionary force has seduced protesters, presidents and pundits alike.

From the Middle East to North Africa, from Cairo to Belarus, activists have replaced leaflets with Twitter-type updates. Mobile-phone mobilisation helped topple Spanish president Jose Maria Aznar in 2004.

But sober reality now hangs over the intoxicating Arab Spring.
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A Twitter revolution can falter as fast as a flash mob when the iron fist of autocracy descends.

Crackdowns quashed anti-Alexander Lukashenko organisers in Belarus (2006), the Green Movement in Iran (2009) and Thailand's Red Shirts (2010).

The notion that Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and YouTube can create regime-changing movements is under fire.

Evgeny Morozov, of Georgetown University in the US, and others have highlighted how readily social media can be used by authorities to identify and persecute protesters.

It appears there are no short cuts to sustainable revolution. Building the members, resources, infrastructure and leaders to take over when the toppling is done takes time. So old-fashioned.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/revolutions-in-140-characters-20120707-21nok.html#ixzz1zzqJKb7l
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