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A Guatemalan Twitter user has been arrested for “inciting a panic” with his tweets. Great reporting from Xeni at boingboing: “Twitter user “Jeanfer” was
arrested for suggesting in a tweet that people who had money deposited
in Banrural should remove those funds, and by doing so, break the
control that corrupt entities have over the state-controlled financial
institution.” [Link]
Posted in Politics, Social Media.
– May 14, 2009
Jon Lebkowsky is a web strategist and consultant, as well as cultural strategist and social commentator. A respected Internet pioneer, he was involved in seminal online communties and advocacy organizations including the WELL, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, EFF-Austin, HotWired, Electric Minds, Global Internet Liberty Coalition, and many others. He was cofounder of an early online community-based company/culture hack, FringeWare, Inc. An early blogger and social web thought leader. he was involved in discussions leading to "web 2.0" and the current revolutionary advances in social technology. He is currently CEO of the media/events think tank, Plutopia Productions, and is a consultant with Social Web Strategies.
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