By John Ballard
From FP
...social networking technologies are more often used to enable individuals across a country, or across the globe, to interact, engage, and become empowered. Although this means that our government will not be able to control the message as well as it might with conventional public diplomacy tools, I believe it is a risk worth taking. Terrorists and other anti-American propagandists have for some time been using the Internet and other techniques to communicate and recruit. America needs to beat them at their own game, especially since we invented most of the technology.
Social networks cut both ways. Which is why #tcot and #ocra are the social networking analogue to fertilizer and diesel fuel. During prohibition authorities tracked jumbo shipments of sugar for the same reason that banks are required to report all transactions exceeding $10,000.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. --Winston Churchill
Wanna see ignorance gone wild? Check out Lamebook.
And some people have a problem with better regulating big business or financial transactions. Endangers their freedom, you know.
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