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New media are increasingly being used to mobilise and unite people in various actions.
In Saudi Arabia, women are not allowed to drive. A Saudi woman claimed this right while driving her children to school in Jeddah. A call was made on Facebook for women to get behind the wheel. This call was encouraged by discussions on other social media, such as Twitter. There are also many videos posted on YouTube showing women driving their cars in the Kingdom.
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Social media are also a powerful driver on a larger scale; almost every self-respecting popular uprising is fueled by social media. During the uprising in Egypt, people even spoke of a true 'Twitter revolution' . The news also spread rapidly around the world via Facebook and YouTube. Despite the regime's blocking of the internet, Twitter and Google offered people in Egypt the opportunity to send tweets via voicemail. YouTube bundled all videos from Egypt on CitizenTube
Social media and smartphones also acted as a catalyst during the riots in London and other British cities in August this year. It soon became clear that the rioters mainly communicated via BlackBerry Messenger (BBM). A third of British young people own a Blackberry, which means that the reach is very large. In addition, the messages are sent encrypted, so that the authorities could not listen in. Closer to home, 'pinging' also appears to be popular; Turkish youngsters called on each other via BBM to come to the Museumplein to 'riot' against Kurds again . At the end of October, Turkish youngsters already attacked a Kurdish centre in Amsterdam.
The role of social media in riots and unrest should not be overestimated. Riots would have broken out even without smartphones and the internet. The British people also proved that social media also has a positive effect on riots. For example, the Twitter account @riotcleanup had tens of thousands of followers within a short period of time and helped to make the country clean and bulgaria phone number list safe again. In addition, the use of social media by rioters also provides useful information in combating them.
Legislation
Cybercrime, internet fraud and privacy violations have not been newsworthy for a while, but executions based on statements on social media are. For example, two British men were sentenced to 4 years in prison because they had placed a call on Facebook to participate in the riots in London. Since neither call resulted in an actual riot, the question of whether the two men are rightly in prison is debatable and opinions differ widely.
The first 'social media conviction' is also a fact in our own country. A 36-year-old man who threatened Femke Halsema on Twitter has been sentenced by the court in Rotterdam to seventeen days in prison and eighty hours of community service. The man threatened to harm Halsema's daughter. Unfortunately for the man, the spelling error ('trekt') did not result in a reduced sentence.
discussed frequently on a global scale recently. For example, British Prime Minister Cameron adjusted his view on the use of new media somewhat in response to the riots in London: “Free flow of information can be used for something good. But it can also be used for something bad.” In August, he therefore wanted to know whether it was justified to make it impossible for people to communicate if it is known that they are planning crimes. Nevertheless, the plan to completely restrict social media in times of social unrest was quickly discarded. The social media ban for individuals did not succeed either. During a meeting between the British Home Secretary and representatives of Facebook, Twitter and RIM (producer of Blackberry), the focus was on how the networks can actually help during riots.