Monday, June 14, 2010

Krauthammer On The Limitations Of Twitter And Facebook

New Media is a wonderful thing but...
On the one-year anniversary of the election that spawned the Green Movement in Iran:
Twitter cannot stop a bullet.

That's the lesson of what happened last year. There was a lot of romantic outpouring here thinking that Facebook is going to stop the Revolutionary Guards. It doesn't. Thuggery, a determined regime that is oppressive, that will shoot, almost always wins.
A hard but simple truth--especially when the Internet actually can be controlled.

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