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Internet companies created the social-media tools that fueled the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street insurgencies, and that have helped political candidates rally grass-roots support.


Rebecca MacKinnon

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TED CRUZ The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and...
BERNIE SANDERS The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming...
JON MEACHAM There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a politica...
DAVID HARVEY Occupy Wall Street-The writing on the wall for the American establishment?
MUHAMMED HAIDER The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes c...
SHIMON PERES Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall S...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people...
DANA SPIOTTA I think Wall Street is very important, especially to tech companies. Wall Street will get in their r...
DAYMOND JOHN Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where...
ILYASAH SHABAZZ It's worth noting that everything - from the Internet to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobi...
STEVE BLANK Importantly, companies are using social media to do things that go way beyond just chatting up exist...
RYAN HOLMES The governor has always said that a healthy debate is a good thing for our party. He looks forward t...
ADAM MENDELSOHN You will notice that the Occupy Wall Street crowds - and the progressives who support them - focus o...
DAVID HARSANYI The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and ...
JAMES A. FORBES The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where fami...
GARY WOLF If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there wi...
DAVID HARVEY I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the ...
ERIN GRAY The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organi...
BEN SHAPIRO Tea Party people know that I stood against the Wall Street scam from Day One, that I voted against T...
RUSS FEINGOLD The oil price and the rally on Wall Street will definitely help us move higher today.
LEX BOUWMEESTER Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greate...
JASON CALACANIS The sharp rally on Wall Street is filtering through the currency market and lifting the U.S. dollar.
ALEX BEUZELIN I think everyday people on the street who have never been affiliated with the tea party movement are...
KRISTI NOEM ISIL's widespread reach through the Internet and social media is most concerning, as the group h...
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BILL MOYERS ... inequality matters ... is what it takes to live a decent life. If you get sick without health co...
BILL MOYERS No surprise that, as companies have adopted social media en masse, demand for software and applicati...
RYAN HOLMES Now Wall Street has turned more cautious. They're demanding more evidence of a trend towards profita...
FREDERICK MORAN While companies were getting comfy cozy with the idea of being on social media platforms, social med...
GARY VAYNERCHUK For decades, media companies have largely controlled the tools through which consumers were told wha...
SIMON MAINWARING Companies and managers that find a way to harness social media stand to gain.
RYAN HOLMES I've said in the primary race repeatedly that a Labour Party that I lead would be a true red Lab...
DAVID CUNLIFFE Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.
CHARLIE MUNGER Gains on Wall Street overnight and in Tokyo this morning helped the market recover.
ALEX WONG Life's irony;Some people use the social media to showcase their riches,others to showcase their frie...
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LISA KLEYPAS I want to have a media platform that is an honest broker and not just a mouthpiece for a political p...
DAVID BROCK Isn't it amazing that our governing officials can so readily identify violations of the rights and a...
CAMILLO MAC BICA In the same way that Occupy Wall Street forever elevated that concept of income inequality, the Blac...
CHARLES M. BLOW The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, w...
JOHN LYDON What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they...
COLIN POWELL First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.
JIM DEMINT He's doing a good job in terms of grass roots support for the party, but he understands, as we do, n...
DICK DURBIN The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY Political equality is meaningless in the face of economic inequality.
ECONOMIC To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expres...
PETER M. BRANT Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, b...
MICHAEL MOORE People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and ...
HENRY ROLLINS I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street...
DANA SPIOTTA There are optimistic signs in northeast Arkansas. Typically, conservatives [in northeast Arkansas ] ...
CLINT REED His support will be invaluable. He has a fabulous grass roots organization that is going to help tel...
JANE CAMPBELL One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the worl...
SARAH LACY The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
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LANNY BAKER Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Dick Parsons has the support of Wall Street, generally speaking.
HAL VOGEL Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy t...
ERIC ALTERMAN We never know what Wall Street will love and what Wall Street won't love, ... We have to do the thin...
JEFF SMULYAN Media companies need to look more to the Internet but the question is how much you pay for that?
HENRY BERGHOEF Companies are increasingly relying on the Internet as a way to find candidates. Presently, there are...
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JOE GRAY This is turning into a crusade. You're seeing the grass-roots movement that got Harold Washington el...
BOB STORMAN Shareholders lose when companies choose to settle investigations motivated by political ambition, fu...
HOWARD OPINSKY It's only political factors that are now holding prices above $60. Iran, Nigeria and Venezuela are p...
GERARD BURG Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and com...
BILL CLINTON We as a people need to declare that we stand with rule of law and not with the false tales of the re...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR. It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political s...
COLIN POWELL Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER 'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portra...
DOUGLAS BRUNT It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Social media is much more than self-promotion. It is a two-way street, a set of tools that allow you...
CENDRINE MARROUAT My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party mov...
MIKE LEE The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witness...
SIGMAR GABRIEL Occupy Wall Street didn't just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all ...
MONICA CROWLEY Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates hav...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON However, you could argue that Kerry and all of the top-tier Democratic candidates want to repeal the...
THOMAS GALLAGHER My party needs to listen to Main Street, not to Wall Street on this issue.
GARY BAUER Democrats need an organizer who will energize the grass-roots across this country to build the party...
KEITH ELLISON It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to cap...
MARIA CANTWELL The system’s not broken. It’s fixed.
OCCUPY WALL STREET (OWS) I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better...
ELAYNE BOOSLER Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mech...
REBECCA MACKINNON This is war, not a tea party. The president is doing the right thing, and we need to support him.
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SALAR KAMANGAR The situation where a political party can file a party ballot on the condition that women candidates...
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PAT ROBERTSON All of the media companies are interested in the Internet. They have to go where the advertiser doll...
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JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
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REBECCA TRAISTER I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.
REBECCA LOOS 'Friday' is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in...
REBECCA BLACK Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, a...
REBECCA SOLNIT When you talk to an author - to any artist, really - you learn something about how they do what they...
REBECCA MAKKAI Sometimes I'm so tired, I look down at what I'm wearing, and if it's comfortable enough ...
REBECCA ROMIJN Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there.
REBECCA LOOS I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was.
REBECCA LOOS I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't b...
REBECCA LOOS I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame...
REBECCA LOOS I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.
REBECCA LOOS I did not know what my future was going to hold.
REBECCA LOOS I am utterly in love with my son and my boyfriend and live in the most magical place on Earth. I'...
REBECCA LOOS As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentif...
REBECCA WELLS Some of my acting heroes have built careers on playing characters who do horrendous things - they...
REBECCA HALL Since 'Christine' started screening, I'm overwhelmed by the response from women and men ...
REBECCA HALL I really think that 'Christine' is one in a million in terms of independent or studio.
REBECCA HALL These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if techn...
REBECCA MCNUTT The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.
REBECCA SOLNIT I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three ...
REBECCA SOLNIT I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular...
REBECCA HALL I definitely got my philanthropic genes from my mom and dad. They taught me from a very early age to...
REBECCA GAYHEART An airplane should never lean too much to the left or the right, because it puts every passenger int...
REBECCA MCNUTT