[frankosaurus]

Zeynep Tufekci's book Twitter and Tear Gas talks about this.

In Tunisia circa 2010, Twitter was part of the new tactics used by social movements and enabled their early success. Establishment groups weren't ready for it and in some ways ignorant of the new technology.

She argues that those in power have since evolved their tactics to counteract these innovations so they're no longer as effective.

For example, in countries where mass censorship is not possible, establishments have adopted techniques of information overload and discrediting/questioning everything to reduce the effectiveness of social movements.

[seadan83]

This, "we don't have to be right, just loud". Personally I feel like this is the environment that spawned the tea party. I recall McCain saying if Obama was elected then we would certainly see another 9/11 attack. I think this is where the discourse is poisoned. Nobody has to ever say they were wrong anymore #lookSquirrel & retweet

[throw_m239339]

> She argues that those in power have since evolved their tactics to counteract these innovations so they're no longer as effective.

Not only governments have caught up but they successfully cracked down on these protesters using their Twitter user history against them, especially in Turkey during the great political purge after the failed (fake) coup attempt.