「アラブの春」を振り返って――デジタルの希望、現実の権力

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://p2ptk.org/digital-rights/5613

Digital Hopes, Real Power: How the #ArabSpring Fueled a Global #Surveillance Boom
When people remember the 2011 uprisings, they picture crowded squares, raised phones, and the feeling that the internet had finally shifted the balance of power toward ordinary people. But the past decade and a half is also a story about how governments, companies, and platforms turned those same tools into the backbone of a powerful state surveillance apparatus.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/digital-hopes-real-power-how-arab-spring-fueled-global-surveillance-boom
Digital Hopes, Real Power: How the Arab Spring Fueled a Global Surveillance Boom

When people remember the 2011 uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), they picture crowded squares, raised phones, and the feeling that the internet had finally shifted the balance of power toward ordinary people. But the past decade and a half is also a story about how governments, companies, and platforms turned those same tools into the backbone of a powerful state surveillance apparatus.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

#ToMove #MohammadMountain #ArabSpring

Lyrics:
Seems like yesterday
But it was long ago
Rajaa was lovely...

#ArabSpring2010 we were running against the #MediaEcology of the #InternetArabSpring

But it was long ago... year 2010... surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends.

#BreakingAllOfTheRules #Romans1132PlusPlus /\ #FoundMySelf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vRsEC65NTA

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Against The Wind (Lyric Video)

YouTube
Dopo il petrolio, il pane. Hormuz e la crisi silenziosa dell'agricoltura mondiale
https://www.metallirari.com/dopo-petrolio-pane-hormuz-crisi-silenziosa-agricoltura-mondiale/
Il blocco dello Stretto di Hormuz ha innescato una crisi dei fertilizzanti che minaccia di trasformarsi in una carestia globale.
#Hormuz #CrisiFertilizzanti #SicurezzaAlimentare #InflazioneAlimentare #Geopolitica #Fertilizzanti2026 #CrisiAlimentare #MetalliRari #Guerra #Urea #AmmoniakaPrezzi #FameNelMondo #ArabSpring #Agricoltura #FilieraAlimentare #Petrolio #GasNaturale #ONU #Carestia
Middle East: Using AI to stop dissent before it even starts

Conflict forecasting, using AI and vast amounts of data, is evolving fast. The Middle East's authoritarian regimes could well be among the first in the world to use it to stop protests — before they even begin.

Deutsche Welle

@Sherifazuhur

Are things getting like before the #ArabSpring in Tunisia?

Digital Hopes, Real Power: How the #ArabSpring Fueled a Global #Surveillance Boom

For #activists , #journalists , & everyday users, that means now living with a constant threat: the phone in your pocket, the platforms you organize on, and the systems you rely on for safety and connection can be #weaponized at the flip of a switch. A global surveillance industry has treated repression by many #MENA governments as a growth opportunity, …now shape digital authoritarianism

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/digital-hopes-real-power-how-arab-spring-fueled-global-surveillance-boom

Digital Hopes, Real Power: How the Arab Spring Fueled a Global Surveillance Boom

When people remember the 2011 uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), they picture crowded squares, raised phones, and the feeling that the internet had finally shifted the balance of power toward ordinary people. But the past decade and a half is also a story about how governments, companies, and platforms turned those same tools into the backbone of a powerful state surveillance apparatus.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Digital Hopes, Real Power: How the Arab Spring Fueled a Global Surveillance Boom

When people remember the 2011 uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), they picture crowded squares, raised phones, and the feeling that the internet had finally shifted the balance of power toward ordinary people. But the past decade and a half is also a story about how governments, companies, and platforms turned those same tools into the backbone of a powerful state surveillance apparatus.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

The @eff has an epic writeup about how the Arab spring was a catalyst for authoritarian information gathering and then there changes to digital life. Three part series.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/digital-hopes-real-power-how-arab-spring-fueled-global-surveillance-boom

#arabspring #surveillance

Digital Hopes, Real Power: How the Arab Spring Fueled a Global Surveillance Boom

When people remember the 2011 uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), they picture crowded squares, raised phones, and the feeling that the internet had finally shifted the balance of power toward ordinary people. But the past decade and a half is also a story about how governments, companies, and platforms turned those same tools into the backbone of a powerful state surveillance apparatus.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

RE: https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352522288234148

Oh. so this is the thread people have been talking about.

jfc.

look, i only know of Dare from Twitter & the tech scene. so that’s almost 20 years now (i joined there in 2007). Dare is like the Black unicorn of techbrolandia. he was never the guy to bring visibility to what’s newsworthy. he’s always been around to amplify techbros.

you know who was followed for what was newsworthy?

ME.

i was in the top 5 of most influential accounts during the #ArabSpring & #OccupyWallStreet

🧵…