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When Hope not Hate aligns with Haters

January 25, 2012 19:16
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In the wonderful quagmire of social networking sites, a menagerie of organisations,companies and protest groups intermingle with peace activists,anti-racists and of course racists.

Twitter is a great example of how you can easily talk to a “white” extremist clan member (mistakenly)one day, and a member of parliament the other.

From one side of the world to another in a few seconds of text, you can be starting a campaign,involving yourself in a petition or just merely talking about what you had for lunch.

And that is the crazy world of the internet.

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