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The effect of sites like Twitter and Facebook in organizing opposition to repressive governments across the world is very relevant to hackers and startups. A s
by michaelty 16y ago
The effect of sites like Twitter and Facebook in organizing opposition to repressive governments across the world is very relevant to hackers and startups.
A startup may also have to consider how to react when a foreign government starts demanding restrictions on the startup's services within a particular country, if the users are destabilizing that foreign government's position.
- jarek 16y agoAny government, including their own, for that matter.
- sanj 16y agoI believe twitter and Facebook's influence is painfully overstated.
- cabalamat 16y agoYou may well be right. OTOH, improved information technology has over time resulted in p0olitical revolutions -- for example the invention of moveable type led to democracy in Europe.