Posted on February 4th, 2011 at 10:48 am by josh-wah
The Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism – Ethan Zuckerman
Blocking banal content on the internet is a self-defeating proposition. It teaches people how to become dissidents – they learn to find and use anonymous proxies, which happens to be a key first step in learning how to blog anonymously. Every time you force a government to block a web 2.0 site – cutting off people’s access to cute cats – you spend political capital.
Read the whole thing – it’s great.
Gratuitous lolcat inclusion:
