Facebook and twitter is regarded as a social network; people to communicate, connect and reconnect with people you don’t really know, share opinions. However, due to the recent crisis in the Middle East and North Africa Facebook and twitter became the major key/tool in organizing revolution parties.
Where the masses had no freedom of speech and were oppress by bad leadership. Has helped people to voice out their feelings and views even though most of them were never revolutionaries.
In previous years, technology has been used to organize revolution, for example the telegram used in 1917, Bolshevik revolution also the role of the tape-recorded in 1979 the Iranian revolution and fax machine is 1989 revolution, etc. Technology has always been key ever since it was created.
As opposed to back in the days when, people rise up against their kings and if they are defeated they then to hire assassins which was mostly used as a form of revolution. For example, Adam Hitler who had a lot of attempted assassinations in his life.
Because of how vast the internet is, tools like Twitter and Facebook were the major tools used to enlighten the world on the oppression that was going on in these countries and they were able to get more support from different people. That is to say, the internet can be an effective tool for political change. For example, in September 2010; Google was able to pick up the blogs and views from all this regions to the freedom of expression conference the company converted in Budapast, to make it accessible to everyone in the world, to listen to their crist and plead.
From reading this article and carefully observing the past and current form of revolution, I strongly agree with what the author says in the article. The internet can be used for a lot of media publicity and political issues; for example revolution, elections and so on. Without the internet everything would have been slow and halted. Preventing the world knowing what was actually going on.
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