The world is changing rapidly and societies adapt seamlessly to technological advances. An example is the unfortunate political situation in Egypt, where an incorrect way, in my opinion, listening to the BBC in the name "Twitter Revolution."
The problem is that there is a deep social unrest, and the company has found in technology how to communicate and achieve empathy with the discontent. Previously manifested in public places, now expressed via the Internet. But the basic problem is the lack of compliance with government policies and the economic situation is not meeting the needs of the population. The rest is how to communicate the demands and generate empathy for these people makes it one against the government. It is recalled that all started three weeks ago with the self-immolation of a man at the headquarters of the government.
The turning point where everything is exploiting the fact that the government, in a folly repeated systematically through history, canceled the roads and how to present social demands (such as the Internet and then communications via cell phone) to avoid social unrest. From this, the situation is taxed, people take to the streets and exposed to all the international media the situation.
We do not know what is going to end the situation, it is likely that the president ended up resigning. Public pressure for that size, people and political prisoners is not easy to control. The important thing is that there may be a before and after Egypt.
The authorities have been dismissing the effect implies that humanity Social Networking is in the best way to communicate. Meanwhile, in the view of politicians, is still prevalent idea that public opinion is constructed in the media. Some even have a specific weight. But after this, all politicians around the world will change the way we see and analyze what happens in these social networks.
The problem is that from the perspective of government, the media that are already directed to the power groups seek to control "public opinion." However, where it really is the opinion of citizens is on computer keyboards for home and office or on cell phones, this being a network speed and magnitude of control for any government. Therefore, the option, as we saw in the case of China and now Egypt, to cancel the communication to the public, all that causes is a common survey.
The big lesson is for governments to understand the social networking phenomenon and understand that Internet freedom is the freedom of thought and transit.
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