Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

"Web 2.0 was created so that people could publish cute photos of their cats. But this same cat dissemination technology has proved extremely helpful for activists, who’ve turned these tools to their own purposes.
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But blocking a tool that is mostly used for amusement or communication between friends has consequences – the users looking for cute cat videos get annoyed that YouTube is blocked… and learn about their government’s willingness to constrain speech. This cost doesn’t mean that governments won’t choose to block these tools, but it makes the calculus more complicated."

Apparently every Latin character has a flipped-upside-down version somewhere in Unicode?
Somewhat older version of same idea at http://revfad.com/flip.html.