Posted on 03/23/2014 4:12:44 PM PDT by Kaslin
Recent events in Turkey, and prior events in Egypt and Libya got me thinking about the amazing power of social media.
On Thursday, Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to eradicate twitter, adding “The international community can say this or that – I don’t care. They will see the power of the Turkish Republic.”
The next day a "digital coup" occurred and Twitter Use in Turkey Jumped to New High.
With the above in mind, I propose ...
The Law of Social Media: Arrogant fools who think they can control social media quickly discover social media controls them.
The overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, followed by the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état of president Mohamed Morsi,with an in-between ouster of Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi provides the basis for a number of important corollaries.
Law of Social Media Corollary One: Once sentiment reaches an extreme enough point, it is too late to be controlled. The social media genie cannot be put back in the bottle.
Law of Social Media Corollary Two: Prior to reaching critical mass in sentiment, the best thing for politicians would be to apologize for mistakes, then promise and quickly implement real reforms.
Law of Social Media Corollary three: Arrogant fools never perceive of themselves as arrogant fools. They will not apologize for mistakes or make necessary reforms. Instead they will eventually be voted out, forced out in a coup d'état, or overrun by the forces of social media.
Kaslin, if only this were true. The plug can be pulled and when the plug is pulled nobody communicates except those having communication and that is no going to be twitter. The tweety bird can be shut down ... easily.
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“Law of Social Media Corollary One: Once sentiment reaches an extreme enough point, it is too late to be controlled. The social media genie cannot be put back in the bottle.”
They will just pull the plug.
Turkish Spring? They could use it. But, as someone else noted, it’s possible to just pull the plug entirely.
The Law of Social Media: Arrogant fools who think they can control social media quickly discover social media controls them. The overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, followed by the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état of president Mohamed Morsi,with an in-between ouster of Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi provides the basis for a number of important corollaries.The first corollary is, national sovereignty doesn't matter to some if the said nation is targeted by Putin for Russian occupation.
The PTB are desperate to control the flow of information. They know that if the people ever wise up they are toast.
LMAO. Good luck with that, numbnuts.
The power of Public Affairs put Team Obama into the White House, and the White House put their Social Media director in charge of the Department of State’s social media and the Public Affairs Office. This country’s current administration has collaborative control of the legacy MSM and the new social media, and has put their people into “appointee” positions throughout all the intel agencies. The problem is that non-US countries want to control the internet because of the taxation angles and because the threat of social media to their regime’s.
Law of Social Media Corollary Four:
Authoritarian governments can turn off the Internet and shoot people.
Law of Social Media Corollary Five:
The USA just gave control of the Internet to an “International” commission.
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