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...although this was a rather feeble attempt by the IDF to control
damage. Their clip at best reasserted their own constituency and even
inside Israel it did not convince many observers. However, more to the
point of the short article, I am not convinced that this was a good
example of governments using social media because:<br>
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<li>I saw the Israeli "version" of events (in fact both sides
versions) in the main news on TV and not online, whereas the IDF
released these videos primarily on their own website. Is this
considered social media?<br>
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<li>Whereas the Israeli version is definitely the government/official
version of the events, the same cannot be made so obviously for the
activists side, since it was a flotilla of international activists on
board and no government representatives and the boats where attacked by
the IDF and not Pro-occupation Israeli activists. There is a kind of
asymmetry here.<br>
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Kuros<br>
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On 06/08/2010 09:46 AM, Geert Lovink wrote:
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