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Tools of Revolution | StarTalk


twitter is one piece I think of of
social of social action that can lead to
a revolution so we can ask what is the
responsibility of such a efficient such
an efficient media communicative source
that’s a hard call I mean you know they
have algorithms they have the ability to
censor hashtags that are gaining
popularity or not as is there what was
that what um but people don’t you know
the correct programmers command the
programmers who you know that could
create the outside there are people in
charge of trends all about Justin Bieber
they didn’t sensors okay so there are
ethical issues that arise with how how
Twitter is used in how news is
disseminated and what choices are made
cuz I had to ask biz stone you know co
founder of twitter what he thought about
people referring to these revolutions as
Twitter revolutions check it out we were
getting lumped into the headlines with
every important thing that was going on
in the world but I made sure to tell
people at Twitter um because the
newspapers were calling it the Twitter
revolution and all the summer so it’s
not the Twitter revolution uh you got it
you got to keep in mind everybody that
these people are bleeding in the streets
these people are dying they reached her
the closest tool and we happen to learn
about Twitter we happen to be there
right place right time but let’s not
let’s not say to ourselves we’re doing
this so i was getting invited to go on
all these you know night evening talk
shows and all this stuff and i said no
this is being appropriate I don’t first
of all I don’t know anything about
what’s going on so I’m gonna look like
an idiot it’ll ask you to comment on
international politics what do I know
about it right second of all these
people are dying and and bleeding and
you know suffering and desperate and I’m
not gonna Hawk my wares on that on the
back of that so I wrote to yet but at
the same time I was getting sort of
pressure from my board like hey man you
got to go on these shows and we’ve got
to grow that you know and I yeah you
some kind of idiot and I and I I was
kind of stuck because the board has to
do what boards do and that’s you know
maximum quality company right and so
what you do so I didn’t I felt that I
shouldn’t I my gut told me don’t go on
the show
but I also didn’t want to piss off all
these media folks because yeah I do want
to go on the show Slater and and yeah I
do want to hype up the product and get
the brand out there and everything else
so I lucked out with one word I chose
one word that was the appropriate word
which was inappropriate I said I feel it
would be inappropriate for me to come on
the program and talk about this and that
worked because I got back universally
another one word answer from a lot of
these producers was understood and so I
was like yes that worked because later
on I did go on all the shows but you
know for brighter sunnier things and no
i didn’t know it’s to it it wasn’t
appropriate and anyone who at the time
was going on there and claiming that
there you know yeah you know i would say
i said yeah the berlin wall when when
the berlin wall fell where telephones
used yes did AT&T say we brought down
the Berlin Wall no but we’re fully phone
calls made sure
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