Civil society group says citizens trying to nominate candidates to stand against el-Sisi face harassment.#AbdelFattahel-Sisi #ArabSpring #ArabSpring:10yearson #Politics #Egypt #MiddleEast
Egypt’s President el-Sisi to run for third term, opposition decry pressure
source: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/
The high point of techno-democratic optimism was arguably 2011, a year that began with the #ArabSpring and ended with the global Occupy movement. That is also when #Google #Translate became available on virtually all smartphones, so you could say that 2011 was the year that humanity rebuilt the Tower of #Babel. We were closer than we had ever been to being “one people,” and we had effectively overcome the curse of division by #language. For techno-democratic optimists, it seemed to be only the beginning of what #humanity could do.
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This new game encouraged dishonesty and mob dynamics: Users were guided not just by their true preferences but by their past experiences of reward and punishment, and their prediction of how others would react to each new action. One of the engineers at Twitter who had worked on the “Retweet” button later revealed that he regretted his contribution because it had made Twitter a nastier place. As he watched #Twitter mobs forming through the use of the new tool, he thought to himself, “We might have just handed a 4-year-old a loaded weapon.”
#society #internet #network #social #fail #problem #economy #hate #mobbing #shitstorm #news
Well, isn't it a shame then that the author of this article fought so hard to destroy and silence the person who ACTUALLY fought to keep people online, e.g. in #egypt during #ArabSpring ? https://english.alaraby.co.uk/opinion/internet-shutdowns-are-being-weaponised-sudans-regime
source: https://newlinesmag.com/first-person/the-festering-wounds-of-yemens-taiz/
To the surprise of few Taizis, the city emerged as a revolutionary hotbed once again during the #ArabSpring in 2011.
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Taiz has been largely ignored, even as the Yemen conflict has garnered increasing coverage and diplomatic focus. It’s symptomatic, perhaps, of the wider oversimplification and polarization of the Yemen #conflict. Binary narratives of the war seem to fall apart here.
