[pp.int.general] Facebook censored global Solidarity with #OccupyGezi event

[Zbigniew Łukasiak]

On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Yasin Aydin (PP-TR)
<yasinaydin at korsanparti.org> wrote:
> Hey, I am in the middle of the events (occupying taksim for 7 days,
> physically) and following every news directly from my activist friends.
> I didnt hear about a website censorship, especially facebook or twitter.
> The government know that if they do such a thing, they will have much much
> bigger pressure from europe and usa.

We don't know who requested that removal.  Maybe it was not really the
Turkish government, but for example Spanish or Greek or German
government - nobody wants trouble.  The global mark that the event
managed to get could make it very powerful and disruptive, something
that the mainstream media would write about for weeks - someone judged
that it would be too powerful and too disruptive.

I am sending this not just to talk about this event in particular -
but rather as an illustration about the tactics of using social media.
 The virality that Facebook offers is very powerful - but it is
managed by a party that is not always our friend - we need to learn
how to use it without becoming too dependent on it.


Z.

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> Yasin Aydin (PP-TR)
> Board member of Pirate Party Turkey - http://www.korsanparti.org
> Alternate board member of PPI - http://www.pp-international.net
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> On Jun 7, 2013, at 9:41 PM, Zbigniew Łukasiak <zzbbyy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Tom Behets <behets at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Don't believe everything you read.
> Both camps are spreading lies to discredit each other.
>
> Hey, put an event on Facebook, get some attention, and remove it.
> Then make blog post about it getting removed.
> This will clearly show we live in a dictatorial regime…
>
>
> I don't know - surely this is a possibility but it is going to rather
> effectively stop the protests - so I don't think it was the organizers
> themselves to delete it.
>
> And answering lilo from the other mail - yes it is a good showcase
> supporting all the geeky arguments for using your own infrastructure
> as much as possible.
>
> Z.
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