Comments on: The Revolution Will Be Twittered http://projectmultiplexer.com/2009/06/19/the-revolution-will-be-twittered/ Ramblings in a State of Insanity Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:47:02 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: zenith http://projectmultiplexer.com/2009/06/19/the-revolution-will-be-twittered/comment-page-1/#comment-46 zenith Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:11:21 +0000 http://projectmultiplexer.com/?p=145#comment-46 Africa still doesn't have the infrastructure or the wealth for the tools necessary for people to get the word out instantly of an atrocity. I think this stuff can still be hidden under the rug for years to come. But it will be harder and harder as the technology proliferates and gets into the hands of more people. Once people can put up a satellite dish and start uploading Youtube videos in the middle of the Congo, it's going to change the game. But I think that's still a few years away. But they're not going to get away with mowing down people in Tehran without it getting out in full movie form. Africa still doesn’t have the infrastructure or the wealth for the tools necessary for people to get the word out instantly of an atrocity.

I think this stuff can still be hidden under the rug for years to come. But it will be harder and harder as the technology proliferates and gets into the hands of more people. Once people can put up a satellite dish and start uploading Youtube videos in the middle of the Congo, it’s going to change the game. But I think that’s still a few years away.

But they’re not going to get away with mowing down people in Tehran without it getting out in full movie form.

]]> By: PMMJ http://projectmultiplexer.com/2009/06/19/the-revolution-will-be-twittered/comment-page-1/#comment-45 PMMJ Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:07:22 +0000 http://projectmultiplexer.com/?p=145#comment-45 <i>But, like Gordon Brown said this morning in response to the Supreme Leader’s sermon blaming the Iranian problems on Britain, there won’t be another Rwanda, there won’t be another massacre hidden in the dark.</i> Except, you know, in Rwanda, which still isn't doing too well. And the Congo. And, well, a lot of Africa. But *other than them*, there won't be another Rwanda. But, like Gordon Brown said this morning in response to the Supreme Leader’s sermon blaming the Iranian problems on Britain, there won’t be another Rwanda, there won’t be another massacre hidden in the dark.

Except, you know, in Rwanda, which still isn’t doing too well. And the Congo. And, well, a lot of Africa.

But *other than them*, there won’t be another Rwanda.

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