There are many cases of activists having their Facebook pages and accounts deactivated at critical times, when they are right in the middle of a campaign or organising a demonstration.
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Digital activism did not spring immaculately out of Twitter and Facebook. It's been going on ever since blogs existed.
Political activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan use Facebook as their primary tool to mobilize support for their causes and activities.
Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.
Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity.
The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.
My kids were targeted on Facebook by protesters.
People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.
It was a precondition to leaving Facebook that I wasn't going to start something that was just about chasing money.
I left Facebook after Facebook groups began appearing about me and suddenly your personal photographs start becoming public property.
If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there will always be a trace.
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