Again you do not read nor understand

Submitted by Peter Hall (Australia), Dec 22, 2011 at 18:39

Well Amin, you said

You seem to not understand the point. That social networking, a free media and access to information are the cornerstones of a free society, limiting access to information, controlling the press and building barriers between people is what repressive regimes do.

Social Media - is NOT cornerstone to a free society. Worst crime of repressive govt is killing you for saying what you want to say...

I said Social networking, not social media, but social media is part of, social networking.

Allowing people to network, allowing people to exchange ideas scares repressive regimes. They already kill people for what they say, that has existed for ages, however social media makes it much harder to control the speed and the extent ideas are spread, therefore repressive regimes go to great lengths to control them.

You may make your decisions on how you communicate by the colour schemes, but that does not make these methods of communication less valid to others.

You may like communicating in Arabic, but I think more people use Facebook to communicate every day than Arabic.

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