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Unnecessary Censorship – Borderlands Part 1 (CENSORED PARODY) Re-upload – Video

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The Censorship Effect

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Editors note:Lydia Laurenson is a writer, researcher, and communications professional fascinated by social media and community dynamics. Lydia also served in the U.S. Peace Corps, working with the HIV program in Swaziland, Africa.

The 29-year-old founder of VKontakte, Russias largest social network, just gotfiredand left the country. That is, Pavel Durovdescribed himself as fired, although there were previous rustlings ofresignation.

Durovs departure was accompanied by much commentary about the censorship climate in Russia. He himself announced that he plans to create a new social network, and that he moved because the country is incompatible with Internet business at the moment. This comes right on the heels of the U.S. IPO for Sina Weibo, a social platform thats sometimes called Chinas Twitter. Mashable recently reported that when Sina Weibo filed its IPO, it describedChinese censorship specifically as a risk factor.

How much does censorship affect digital media from a business perspective? Ive recently been researching cross-cultural social media while working on some articles for OReilly Media. Unsurprisingly, its clear that censorship has a huge impact on how social platforms develop and on how individuals use them. Some of the specific effects of censorship can be surprising, though.

Ethan Zuckerman, the director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and other experienced commentators have arguedthat censorship can actually strengthen dissent when very popular sites get taken down. For example, a person who only visits YouTube for cat videos will be alerted that something big has gone wrong if YouTube is blocked, even if that person wouldnt normally pay attention to the news.

Ive also heard tales of how censorship and its pal, propaganda, strengthen social media ties.In China, the Internet plays a much deeper role in society because all the normal media is propaganda. You know that whats appearing in state-run media is not objective, but something on the Internet might be, saysThomas Crampton, the global managing director for international marketing agency Ogilvy & Mather.

This is supported by other marketing reports like this onefrom management consulting firm McKinsey, which notes that Chinese consumers value the brand recommendations of friends, family, and social media influencers far more than American consumers do.

However, there are plenty of situations where social media platforms are decimated by censorship. Some data crunching by the Telegraph in the U.K.showed clearlythat last years Chinese war on rumors and more importantly, the wars associated arrests caused Sina Weibo usage to drop off a cliff. No wonder Weibo called censorship a risk factor in its IPO.

The writer and anthropologist Sarah Kendzior, who researches authoritarian states in Eastern Europe, has written thatIn authoritarian states, the circulation of state crimes often serves to confirm tacit suspicions, and in some cases, to reaffirm the futility of the fight. Fear, apathy, cynicism and distrust are as common reactions to these quasi-revelations as are outrage and a desire for change.

What I think is interesting is how much of the authoritarian state mentality people take when they leave the country, Kendzior tells me.I see the same fear and wariness about social media from people who have fled Uzbekistan, as people who are still there. Its very hard to shake off self-censorship.

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Twitch: Ron Paul Warned Us Triathlon – Video

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Twitch: Ron Paul Warned Us Triathlon
Watch as we do something really stupid. Don #39;t try this at home, but definitely try it in GTA Online! Faceyspace: We do the triathlon, but things don #39;t seem to turn out as expected. Faceyspace:...

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Ron Paul, Home Schooling & Glenn Beck Discuss The School Revolution Broken Education Syste – Video

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Ron Paul, Home Schooling Glenn Beck Discuss The School Revolution Broken Education Syste
Former Texas congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul appeared on TheBlaze TV Tuesday to speak with Glenn Beck about his work to advance homeschooling. Glenn Beck and Ron Paul talk...

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Ron Paul Subcommittee to Examine Fractional Reserve Banking and High-Powered Money – Video

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Ron Paul Subcommittee to Examine Fractional Reserve Banking and High-Powered Money
This hearing of the Domestic Monetary Policy Subcommittee examined fractional reserve banking, its relationship to monetary policy, and its effect on the eco. Fractional Res. How fractional...

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Conversations w/ Great Minds – Rep. Ron Paul – Corporations are not People! – Video

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Conversations w/ Great Minds - Rep. Ron Paul - Corporations are not People!
On The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann a special Monday Edition of Conversations with Great Minds. The Former Congressman talks NSA, drones, Edward Snowden, T. For tonight #39;s special edition...

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Why Was the Fed Created? with George Selgin — Ron Paul Fed Lecture Series, Pt 1/3 – Video

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Why Was the Fed Created? with George Selgin -- Ron Paul Fed Lecture Series, Pt 1/3
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The Dangerous Possibilities of Current Political Agendas – Ron Paul – Video

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The Dangerous Possibilities of Current Political Agendas - Ron Paul
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Why Do We Pay Money for the Defense of Europe? Ron Paul Interview (1988) – Video

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Why Do We Pay Money for the Defense of Europe? Ron Paul Interview (1988)
In the 1950s many with classical liberal beliefs in the United States began to describe themselves as libertarian. Academics as well as proponents of the f. Paul has consistently warned of...

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Ron Paul Hearing on Sound Money and Restoring the Dollar — 9/13/11 – Video

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Ron Paul Hearing on Sound Money and Restoring the Dollar -- 9/13/11
This hearing of the Domestic Monetary Policy Subcommittee examined: (1) parallel currencies and alternative forms of money; (2) the effects of parallel curre. This hearing of the Domestic...

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