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TEDTalks - Clay Shirky: How Twitter can make history

About this talk: While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics. Time 17:03 minutes; Filmed May 2009; Posted on TED: June 2009 About Clay Shirky: Shirky, a prescient voice on the Internet’s effects, argues that emerging technologies enabling loose collaboration will change the way our society works. Full bio and more links