Interesting talk in the face of the ongoing events in Iran:
Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors however briefly. The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.
via Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history | Video on TED.com.
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