Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history

www.ted.com While news from Iran streams to the world, 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.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore …

25 Responses to Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history

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  2. kennebacasiskyle

    great video

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  3. So after all the activity in the FISA group, absolutely nothing changed. I’d say that’s rather uninspiring.

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  5. BaileysBeads

    Not really, it means he listened to them but wasn’t directly influenced by them.

    His community is not some kind of lobby-group after all.

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  6. Because he sent out a memo that’s supposed to be taken as a great achievement?

    I just had this silly notion that in a democracy, leaders policies represented the will of their constituents.

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  7. BaileysBeads

    Indeed, so not just those that happen to be part of his little internet forum.

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  8. bald Tom Hanks?

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  9. fornow100000

    this is really great. POWER to the PEOPLE but again this is a double edged sword. it can limit you very much (ex locate you, spy on you, listen to your conversations etc. Nonetheless I think the average citizen today can learn a lot more than before

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  10. Your statements are rather naive.
    Because he sent out a memo, and stuck with his plan makes him a good leader.
    If you didn’t know, just because many people think something, doesn’t make it right or true. Watch the movie Swing vote. It’s an interesting look at how leaders who “follow the will of their constituents” isn’t a good idea.

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  11. Animalll2003lll

    true but maybe it’s better like that anyways. I don’t know. very good remark.

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  12. hell0kittylover

    no lie!! LOL

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  13. Its a compromise, but then again, as long as i am legitimate in all my actions, the law cannot harm me because i do not represent any threat to the society i live in. Therefore, i do not suffer for being spied or having my conversations listened, though i do take advantage of having available the largest database in human history: internet.

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  14. NearlyShaoKahn

    This is great, 13:00 it’s like a hivemind. This really is history in the making.

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  15. fornow100000

    well… i wish it were the truth. unfortunetly reality is a bit diffrent. they can declare you enemy if they want to. fabricate evidence if they want you. you gave them the right to hear you see you and now give them your DNA. don’t you think that the big brother has too much information? goverments are not gods. they are evil and intrest driven people behind it. wake up before its 2 late. i invite you to watch my ‘favorities’ . Perhaps u ll understand what i mean. dont take ur freedom4granted!

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  16. wow this is amazing information i never thought of the media in this way before the people now have more of a say in what goes on and we cant be controlled and its just started!!! our future is going to be amazing and for the good. we can save our Earth with this now we don’t have a master that tells use what to do.

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  17. interesting how he explains that Obama nicely ignores the people’s opposition. Its like sure have free speech, but we’ll ignore you anyway. typing words, sending letters of opposition will only do so much, if the government doesnt act on these voices, then its repressive, no matter how much we speak out.

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  18. i did sense that too, but i dont have time to put such a nice lecture together. im glad he did it, i was looking for one. esplain to me mr. bald head man what it all means..haha

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  19. not only that, but computers are used to track us now, habits, likes,age,hobbies computers generate individual specific advertisement in seconds. i guess this is where all our private information that we so freely inform comes into play.

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  20. dont loose your pride. be proud of all those in China who challenge their government for the betterment of their people .

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  21. all your knowledge will be outdated if you get to be old. that’s how it seems to work.

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  22. The whole point of the story was that he didn’t (and couldn’t) ignore the opposition. He had to reconsider, and explain himself. No president is going to perfectly reflect the will of the people on every issue. If every issue could be voted on directly by the people, it would be am uncoordinated mess. The result, in my opinion, is a compromise and not a sinister repression. Not looking to argue, just my opinion.

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  23. great talk, loved it! does anyone think that he lookes like tom hanks if he had hair?

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  24. JustinHSabaj

    yes. sounds like him a bit, too.

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