Many of us know what’s going on in Egypt and the Middle East. University students like us have decided to get together in big groups to challenge a system that is incredibly powerful and daunting. They are doing this using a powerful weapon of their own and that is the social media network on the internet. Its pretty smart really, autocracies survive by suppressing the democratic tendency to discuss and share ideas freely. On the internet however, it becomes increasingly difficult for countries with limited resources to track dissent. These platforms then become rallying grounds that attempt to undermine the seeming integrity of the autocracy.
Essentially facebook becomes an Easter egg of revolutions; one inside another. The amazing part is that there is very little governments can do in terms of leverage. It would not be possible to directly move against these companies with servers in the United States. The option of shutting down the internet in a globalized economy is nearly unimaginable. Other factors such as television and media exacerbate the situation. Contextually the youth in countries with depressed employment and suppressed rights often resort to these networks to voice and vent frustration.
In any case, Egypt proved to be a text book example of this scenario. It might be amusing to consider that despite pressures from several interest groups and nations, both pro and against democracy; none of them achieved a large success. That could only be done by a social stimulus created by a social engineer in the United States.
With all the protesting going on in the world, we need to protest here. We need to protest the two party system because nothing ever gets' accomplished. They go back and forth arguing and acheive nothing.
ReplyDeleteI would say so. How you protest and achieve what you want is important, protests arent a novelty in America so you need to strike something different or powerful
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