The Political Power of Social Media

The Political Power of Social Media

Q1) Will social media be established as the new means of revolution? It has happened all over the world and there is little governments can do to completely disenable social media users.

Q2) Will laws be formed around the use of social media around the world as the worlds authoritarian governments try and limit access to it? Will we see radical change in the way governments respond to the use of social media, as seen in Belarus in 2006, the 2009 uprising of the Green Movement, or in Thailand in 2010?

Q3) How exactly did China, and authoritarian governments all around the world, limit access to what citizens could view online? What were the ramifications they faced if they breached it, if they could?

Q4) Clay Shirky talked about how there are software developers trying to make a program capable of implementing censorship. At the rate we’re going, it seems like such ideas are possible given enough time. Have they created anything close to that capability since the article’s publication in 2011?