According to the article, Freed journalist: Iranian regime’s ‘information fears’, it discusses the journalist, Maziar Bahari who was arrested in Tehran for joining efforts with the media in western cultures. He was arrested for using the information he knew “against [their] master, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.” He was considered a terrorist. He released “scenes of Iran’s militia shooting from their base at protesters- some of whom had been throwing petrol bombs at the militia.” He was arrested a week after all the images were released around the world.
For Iran, information is seen as a threat. When information is released, they demand to know who it was released to. Luckily, Maziar Bahari, was considered to have a high profile case and therefore was released on bail.
The media, including social networking, is a threat to Iran. At first, it was used as a tool for Iran to spread their messages to the world. Today, the Internet (including videos and simple messaging back and forth) is a significant component for the citizens within Iran to talk amongst each other. For the country itself, they fear for their lives that the information they hide will be released, and the social networking turning against what they once aspired it to do with it. (BBC News)
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
Promoting hatred through social networks
After many blogs publicized and protested a Facebook page, which publicized a third intifada, Facebook finally removed it. Facebook has said that any page, which threatens another or publicizes hate, will be removed.
Although it may not have started off as a page towards hatred, the comments and publicity it received, has turned it into a negative and violent page. Fox news was informed by Noyes, a spokesman for Facebook, that "after administrators of the page received repeated warnings about posts that violated [Facebook] policies, [Facebook] removed the page.” While many thanked Facebook for removing the page, The Anti Defamation League “filled an official complaint against Facebook” for keeping the page up for so long, as it sustained public violence. Do you believe Facebook is able to regulate all the Facebook pages set up towards animosity, whether it be towards ones peers or even a larger nation as whole? If so, by the time Facebook acts accordingly do you think enough damage would have already taken place amongst those on Facebook?
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/29/facebook-removes-page-encouraging-upraising-israel/#ixzz1IckAkiFn
Although it may not have started off as a page towards hatred, the comments and publicity it received, has turned it into a negative and violent page. Fox news was informed by Noyes, a spokesman for Facebook, that "after administrators of the page received repeated warnings about posts that violated [Facebook] policies, [Facebook] removed the page.” While many thanked Facebook for removing the page, The Anti Defamation League “filled an official complaint against Facebook” for keeping the page up for so long, as it sustained public violence. Do you believe Facebook is able to regulate all the Facebook pages set up towards animosity, whether it be towards ones peers or even a larger nation as whole? If so, by the time Facebook acts accordingly do you think enough damage would have already taken place amongst those on Facebook?
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/29/facebook-removes-page-encouraging-upraising-israel/#ixzz1IckAkiFn
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