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Coastal Elites Can’t Decide: Is Twitter a Force for Good or Evil? Have you heard? All the trouble the president’s been having with his health care initiative is Twitter’s fault. So says ad man James Othmer in a New York Times op-ed. Wait, wasn’t Twitter saving Iranian democracy like 10 minutes ago? Yes it was. In the summer, the coastal elites hailed Twitter’s brilliant simplicity for allowing the microblogging service to route around authoritarian sensors and transmit poignant messages that made otherwise apathetic Americans really care about Iranian activists, as evidenced by their willingness to turn digital avatars green. Seen at Valleywag

Coastal Elites Can’t Decide: Is Twitter a Force for Good or Evil?

Have you heard? All the trouble the president’s been having with his health care initiative is Twitter’s fault. So says ad man James Othmer in a New York Times op-ed. Wait, wasn’t Twitter saving Iranian democracy like 10 minutes ago?

Yes it was. In the summer, the coastal elites hailed Twitter’s brilliant simplicity for allowing the microblogging service to route around authoritarian sensors and transmit poignant messages that made otherwise apathetic Americans really care about Iranian activists, as evidenced by their willingness to turn digital avatars green.

Seen at Valleywag

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