http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/06/online-activism/ Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:55:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/06/online-activism/comment-page-1/#comment-90997 Annotated Bibliography: Twitter and the Iranian Election Protests « OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:21:04 +0000 http://lair.fierydragon.org/?p=496#comment-90997 [...] Online Activism The Lair, 22 June 2009 http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/06/online-activism/ Extract: “It seems like a made-for-a-VC-presentation fairytale – an oppressed people rise up, converge online and overthrow the comedic villain that everyone loves to hate. It could even be the next “You Got Mail” (You Can Haz Tweets?). On the face of it, I should be all over this – power to the people, information should be free, and hey, it’s Iran. My (completely irrelevant and probably unedified) view from several thousand miles away is that there could be worse things that a change of regime. And that this view is probably diametrically opposed to my country’s foreign policy causes me much amusement.” [...] [...] Online Activism The Lair, 22 June 2009 http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/06/online-activism/ Extract: “It seems like a made-for-a-VC-presentation fairytale – an oppressed people rise up, converge online and overthrow the comedic villain that everyone loves to hate. It could even be the next “You Got Mail” (You Can Haz Tweets?). On the face of it, I should be all over this – power to the people, information should be free, and hey, it’s Iran. My (completely irrelevant and probably unedified) view from several thousand miles away is that there could be worse things that a change of regime. And that this view is probably diametrically opposed to my country’s foreign policy causes me much amusement.” [...]

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