Underground demonstrators have, very cleverly based themselves on blogpages, chat pages and social web sites such as facebook. This is what the Egyptians did, when going up against Mubarak. This is what is done here. Here however its not only used to communicate and organize demonstrations. The network is built around getting a debate going. Its very clever and the ripple effect terrific. So someone starts by blogging or somehow defining a target. Then (because you choose someone actually being read (unlike me)) a group of surrounding bloggers start and comments pile up. Then the chatlines light up. The ripple spreads out and as it passes on, the sensibility of the debate declines as people comment on the last comment instead of going to the source.
I´ve gone through several of these and found them terrific examples. Terrific examples of how you miss the point. The best thing being that the comments become more threatening, the names more cryptic. As they get more rude and offensive they demand respect. They demand hysterically that people are thrown off debate lines and blogs, - in words, that make you whish that censorship was rewoked.
So here I am, a man who'll will fight, peacefully; a man who will fight for democracy, freedom of speech and human rights, well, wondering if I should change my mind.
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