What role has social media played in the Middle East revolutions?
This is the sort of thing I brought up before in a previous post. Twitter and Facebook played a HUGE role in Egypts revolution. Governments no longer have a monopoly over information. People are talking to each other about real events.
But now I worry about countries like China and North Korea where the internet is largely censored and social networking sites are on lock down. I worry because nobody is helping them as we have no political interest in the area. The middle east is hot right now because of 1) oil and alleged oil as well as 2) "Radical Muslims" were the ones who supposedly caused the 9/11 attacks and they "all" live in the Middle East.
I watched this video and it makes me very sad that the major world powers of the US, the UK, the European Union, etc. preach about democracy morning, noon and night, yet they fund repressive regimes in the Middle East and even South America due to commercial gains and "at least it's not Communism." It's sad. And extremely sickening.
The world needs to see more progress. More revolution. We can do this.
