[governance] Barack Obama Victory Tweet Most Retweeted Ever

Chaitanya Dhareshwar chaitanyabd at gmail.com
Thu Nov 8 00:33:13 EST 2012 

Given the recent issues with the USG asserting (or trying to assert) a fair
bit of control over the internet, and the fact that Obama's government
veto'd the change I figure it's relevant to us in the context that the
status quo will continue. A change of first citizen of the US can result in
fair few changes in the overall thinking/working of the country - so yes
this *news* is certainly important.

The article just looks like an 'election update' type of news and not
particularly relevant - so, Suresh I do agree with you here.

-C

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<suresh at hserus.net>wrote:

> Don't get me wrong, I'd have voted for Obama if I were a US citizen
>
> The one thing I have an issue with is that there's little or no
> relationship between that (or other discussion about the US elections) and
> internet governance.  Except in an abstract way as an illustration of the
> USA's tradition of free speech, say.
>
> This list has a fairly high level of traffic, so getting four or five news
> articles, seemingly randomly chosen, forwarded to it every day doesn't help
> much.
>
> thanks srs
>
> Charity Gamboa [07/11/12 23:00 -0600]:
>
>> Suresh,
>>
>> It's always a matter of opinion. Anybody can hit the delete key if that
>> particular item perplexes them. But you know some of us who can make the
>> connection  - then it's not a big deal. The picture of the president and
>> the first lady hugging and is heavily tweeted (and even circulated in
>> Facebook) is a sign of free speech online.  Please don't get me wrong -
>> you
>> are entitled to ask. There are so many facebook pages created in the US
>> that is devoted to political opinions, e.g. "*Politically Incorrect and
>> Proud of It Too*." Anybody can subscribe to humorous quotes, posts and
>>
>> pictures that pokes fun at President Obama. That's like normal squabbling.
>> You have the likes of Michelle Malkin who is a very strong conservative
>> blogger who uses her Twitchy website to post her tweets (as screenshots)
>> to
>> make a political point. So those people who tweeted on Obama's winning are
>> probably his supporters, thus, expressing their own right to express
>> themselves via social media. I see nothing wrong with that regardless if
>> one is a liberal, conservative or a libertarian. Do I really need to
>> elaborate on this issue? Nope - it's a no brainer. I just want to point
>> out
>> that this is how I would think of the issue. But I wouldn't chide Fahd for
>> posting that here as well as he is also is exercising his right to share
>> his opinion. I also chose to give him a break.
>>
>> Charity Gamboa-Embley
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net
>> >wrote:
>>
>>  Well you see, without some commentary about it in this context from the
>>> original poster, it is practically impossible to tell the difference
>>> between that and idle forwarding of random news articles.
>>>
>>> --srs (htc one x)
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> From: "Ivar A. M. Hartmann" <ivarhartmann at gmail.com>
>>> To: "governance at lists.igcaucus.org**" <governance at lists.igcaucus.org**>,
>>> "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <suresh at hserus.net>
>>> Cc: "Fahd A. Batayneh" <fahd.batayneh at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: [governance] Barack Obama Victory Tweet Most Retweeted Ever
>>> Date: Thu, Nov 8, 2012 4:26 AM
>>>
>>>
>>> I believe major happenings in the field of social networks are of
>>> interest
>>> to IG.
>>> In this case, it's more strong evidence of the use of social networks for
>>> political speech. This relates to cyberdemocracy theories and concerns
>>> stakeholders involved in regulating free speech online as political
>>> speech
>>> is deemed in almost all democracies to be the type of speech that calls
>>> for
>>> the stronger protection.
>>> Just my opinion.
>>> Best,
>>> Ivar
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <
>>> suresh at hserus.net
>>> >wrote:
>>>
>>> > May I ask your opinion on how or why a photo of a couple hugging is
>>> anyway
>>> > remotely related to igov?
>>> >
>>> > --srs (iPad)
>>> >
>>> > On 08-Nov-2012, at 1:26, "Fahd A. Batayneh" <fahd.batayneh at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/**technology-20237531<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20237531>
>>> >
>>> > The words "four more years", coupled with a photo of Barack and
>>> Michelle
>>> > Obama embraced in a hug, have become the most retweeted Twitter post
>>> ever.
>>> >
>>> > Fahd
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