a challenge for Israeli diplomacy.
and why the authoritarian regimes should fear social networking.
The efficiency of such approaches are very much depending on the degree of literacy and the number of Internet users. In the same time, it is almost impossible to keep a certain control of who is posting the information and of its reliability. It happened several times in the case of the Iran twittering. For foreign affairs, the opening is controlled - normal, because whatever open we consider ourselves, the sensitive issues should not be public, mainly when as it is the case in foreign affairs, another country is involved. And, in a non-democratic country, those tools are used for the purposes of propaganda. The key of a ethical use of social networks is, of course, democracy, but for the promoters of democracy, the social networks are the fresh air which could be used to counter the anti-democratic regimes. Regimes who could as well block access, as it was the case in Iran or China.
The process is on the run, but it is better to have now those tools than before. It is still a chance for change and more transparency.
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