Ägypten: Die Massenmedien wurden nicht gebraucht, weil es die Massen waren, die kommunizierten ✼

Jan Searls:

The voice heard in the square in Cairo and in the streets of Egypt did not rise up overnight or out of thin air. That voice that has been unheard because it was a voice shouting in a vacuum. But a vacuum cannot exist in cyberspace. Traditionally in revolutions the key is to take over the one-to-many vehicles of mass communication, radio and TV. But this time they were not taken over, they were ignored. They weren’t needed because it was the masses that were communicating.

Folgerichtig da die Erwähnung, dass (dann) die Kontrolle von Massenmedien im Ernstfall völlig unerheblich ist. — Weiterführend sind die Links am Ende des Eintrages ebenfalls lesenswert.