But social media doesn't matter, you know, to authoritarian governments.https://twitter.com/dougsaunders/status/612780247168057344 …
@DougSaunders all the platforms they allow are engineered to make initiating collective action harder.
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@zeynep Unquestionably so. But there are perverse effects of such engineering: The sudden vanishing of words makes some consider them more -
@DougSaunders I think they try to guess what threatens them, and control that, while allowing what can't be controlled in a modern economy.
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@zeynep (Complicated by the fact that *some* collective action is tolerated, even encouraged. But 3 or 4 very big subjects utterly erased) -
@DougSaunders I'll send you a paper that was good at teasing out what gets through. I think it partially functions as "petition to emperor" - Show replies
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