Whilst Thailand’s opposition party won a landslide victory in Sunday’s election, the campaign marks a notable development in democratic politics – the monitoring of the internet to ensure strict enforcement of a law banning last-minute campaigning from 6pm local time on Saturday until midnight on Sunday by which time the results would be known. More than 100 police were reported by Reuters to be monitoring Twitter and other social media sites to ensure the law was enforced.
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It is normal practice around the world for broadcasters to urge their viewers and listeners to “follow them” on Facebook or on Twitter. But not any more in France. The French government is coming down hard on what it terms “clandestine advertising”: namely the promotion of a brand outside the boundaries of recognized advertising.
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Fahmi Fadzil, a performer and writer from Kuala Lumpur, has achieved something of a legal first as far as we can tell. He claimed in a tweet back in January that a pregnant friend of his had been poorly treated by her employers – a magazine run by BluInc Media. Within a few hours of the claim, he issued an apology but it was not enough for the company and its lawyers.
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The death of the Al-Qaeda network’s leader, Osama Bin Laden on 2nd May, has sparked mass celebrations in the West. But at Twitter HQ they are celebrating a new Twitter record. Twitter has prided itself on being a source of breaking news since it entered our cyber landscape some 5 years ago. But the degree to which the social network was being used on 2nd May was quite unprecedented.
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