According to the latest news reports from Urumqi, a far-flung city in western China, “calm” had returned to the streets as the death toll from Sunday’s protests hit 156, with 800 injured, and 1,434 protestors detained. Officials say most of the dead were Han Chinese, while Uyghur groups report that 90% of those killed were Uyghurs. Though reports about the ethnic background of those killed and accounts of the protest may vary, one thing is clear. The Chinese government has cracked down, enforced curfews, and rounded up protestors in an effort to stop future unrest. Meanwhile, wall posts from Uyghurs,…
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Hundreds Die In Urumqi. Does The World Care?
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Facebook And Social Platforms Give Control Back To The People
First Facebook and then a number of other sites were being blocked by Iran. It isn’t exactly an atypical action by a regime who has done so before on a number of instances. This time something was different though. Twitter became the unlikely hero of a large group of individuals who were calling for a vote recount and regardless of the outcome were furthering a movement. What’s becoming increasingly clear is the widespread impact that social technology is having on the world.
For the first time it feels as though we are part of something greater and that the people…
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Odds Of Facebook Governance Vote Counting: Next to Nothing
When Facebook announced the “Facebook Governance” voting back in February, Mark Zuckerberg hailed it as an “unprecedented” effort to involve users in the development of the terms of service. Almost two months later the voting has finally begun and around 260,000 individuals have voted on which terms to use. Within one week, 30 percent of the site’s population, or 60,000,000 individuals, will have to vote in order for the decision to stick. In other words, the vote is more symbolic than an actual vote.
Not All Users Will Be Active This Week
So why do we say that this vote…
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Aforismi perduti nel nulla
December 08 1. Everyone exercises own madness habitually. But it comes ago judged crazy only who in not conventional circumstances.
2. It says that Italy is a democracy founded on the job. The immigrants produce 10% of the P.I.L but they have not approached the democracy.
3. Who believes also without to see. Who must see in order to believe. Who also [...
