Activism is a method of campaigning for legislative and social change. Protest is an act of taking part in a campaign to express dissatisfaction about something. In the Arab Springs, social media is used to describe the situation in the Middle East to people around the world. A video shows that Hamza Ali al-Khateeb, a boy named by the authorities, was beaten and killed in Jiza. After it was posted, the video was taken offline, but YouTube employees were still revived. Another video posted by Wael Abbas, an Egyptian counter-torture activist, shows a video in which two police officers sexually abused a bus driver. The governments of Libya and Syria have tried to limit Internet access, but their efforts have been unsuccessful, as the inhabitants of those countries have continued to rally to express unhappiness about what was happening at the time. However, a group of hackers identified as the Syrian Cyber Armed Forces is using social media to suppress oppressive governments by posting dissident contact records, threatening opposition and spreading messages promoting the oppressive regime (Youmanans & York 2012, p. 315-323).

Protests in Hong Kong started in 2019 when a Hong Kong man who murdered his girlfriend in Taiwan was sentenced to be extradited from Beijing to the mainland and tried under Chinese law. The Hong Kongers were angry that their rights as a special economic zone will begin to erode in the years after the transition (Kuo & Yu 2019).

Shao (2019) also points out how the new protests in Hong Kong, which took place in 2019, brought demonstrators to the point of asking Hong Kong to be released from mainland China. But it has increasingly become well past the normal orderly protests, with the ongoing escalation of violence between demonstrators and the Hong Kong police to endanger the lives of ordinary citizens in Hong Kong. There are several news sources on the store. Any news sources say that the police are violent against the protesters, and there are claims that the protesters are violent against the police and destroy public property. This clearly indicates that numerous news sources have their own personal dissemination goals and methods.

The 2014 Umbrella protests is another example of protests in which the Joshua Wong student leader, only 18, used a Bluetooth networking platform known as Firechat, which could be used even though mobile networks is shut down. Joshua and his protest team led protests in favour of the Chinese government's fundamental right to vote (Sigal & Biddle, p. 287-291).

In conclusion, if the reason is to change society for the better, the act of participating in and organizing protests is a positive one. However, we need to be cautious, because things don't necessarily appear to be participating in activities. Even we can be exploited to fight for what we don't or don't want. This would have a negative impact on culture, such that we might have myths or even false influences that may contribute to the deterioration of a once healthy, prosperous society.

References

Youmans, WL & York, JC 2012, ‘Social media and the activist toolkit: User agreements, corporate interests and the information infrastructure of modern social movements’ Journal of Communication ISSN 0021-9916 pp.315-323, viewed 12 October 2020.

Sigal, I & Biddle, E 2015, ‘Our enduring confusion about the power of digital tools in protest’, Open Humanities Press, issn. 1449-1443, pp.287-291, viewed 12 October 2020. 

Shao, G 2019, ‘Social media has become a battleground in Hong Kong’s protest’, CNBC, 16th August, viewed 12 October 2020. <https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/16/social-media-has-become-a-battleground-in-hong-kongs-protests.html>

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