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The so-called Arab Spring was interpreted by the entire rest of the world that America can destroy a country purely by “cyber” warfare. That genie isn’t going b
by gaius 9y ago
The so-called Arab Spring was interpreted by the entire rest of the world that America can destroy a country purely by “cyber” warfare. That genie isn’t going back in the bottle.
But hilariously, America seems dead-set on using the same weapon on itself...
- knowaveragejoe 9y ago> The so-called Arab Spring was interpreted by the entire rest of the world that America can destroy a country purely by “cyber” warfare Considering how much support I saw from outside the US, I'm finding this hard to believe.
- gaius 9y agoConsidering how much support I saw from outside the US Twitter is an American corporation, the users are its product. They did exactly what the platform incentivised them to do.
- thevardanian 9y agoby... communicating with each other? Users aren't the product, they're the revenue stream. The product is an easy to use communication tool.
- gaius 9y agoFTA: literally changes your relationship with society It’s a weapon that can totally disrupt a society to the point at which it cannot function. What else would you call what happened in Libya?
- thevardanian 9y agoWhat happened in France, America, Britian, India, or a whole host of other countries that became unsatisfied with the power structure that was in place. In history we mostly learn about the successful revolution, and rarely hear about the failed ones. In the recent past the Middle-East has a litany of failed revolutions.
- yurish 9y agoCan't say about entire rest of the world but that is when Putin changed his domestic policy from more or less liberal to censoring internet etc.
- saas_co_de 9y agoNot purely cyber warfare. The arab spring had well organized and well funded groups operating on the ground using social media tools as part of their efforts. It is hard to say how much the social media (twitter especially) were really playing a role on the ground and how much they were being used for propaganda to shape opinion in the west. The arab spring was when CNN and others started reporting on tweets like they were legitimate news, which obviously has to be a discriminatory process, because someone is deciding which tweets are news out of the millions that are not. Someone decides that the tweets of atrocities on one side are news, while atrocities on the other side are not, and that the tweets "proving" that the first tweets were staged fakes are not news either.