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On Facebook’s deletion of a gay kiss (or why community policing doesn’t work)

It used to be that I had to seek out instances of overreaching Facebook censorship. Now, thanks to loads of recent high-profile examples and increased popular interest in the topic, they fall right into my lap. On BoingBoing today, Richard Metzger, a self-described “married, middle-aged man,” writes that he became a spokesman for gay rights […]

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re:campaign XI: Tools of Change (How Social Media Helped Spark the Arab Spring)

On Saturday, I gave another talk in Berlin, this time at the re:campaign conference, on the role of technology in the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and beyond. My take, as I’m sure you know by now, is that tools are just that…tools, and that a revolution comes from human power, but that nevertheless, such technology […]

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re:publica 11: noha atef on egyptian social media stories

Noha Atef, the Egyptian blogger behind tortureinegypt.net is giving a talk at re:publica 11 on “Egyptian social media stories” to answer questions about how Egyptians have used social media and how, overnight it seems, Egyptians managed to mobilize on social networks to assist in the revolution. “The answer to the question: ‘Were Egyptians using social […]