The Facebook Furor

The furor over the income tax caused the resignation of Barrot as prime minister, but a new wine tax also caused protests.

So, we're used to not challenging religious ideas, and it's very interesting how much of a furor Richard creates when he does it.

One can imagine the furor if a Western, non Muslim woman had died because an Imam had refused her medical care for religious reasons.

So, we're used to not challenging religious ideas and it's very interesting how much of a furor Richard creates when he does it. He meant me, not that one.

Panic and a re tweeting furor began when people noticed that the flotilla hashtag was not trending on Twitter despite countless Tweets and Re tweets and it trending on Google.

Indonesia apos s bullying of the Philippines and the latter apos s submission unleashed a diplomatic furor never before experienced among the States of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN).

For these reasons, and in light of the Vienna Convention s specific terms, I believe that the EU cannot just move on and hope that the media furor over Snowden s allegations will die down.

LEEDS Thailand s former prime minister, Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, recently ignited a furor when he proposed that the separatist campaign in his country s Muslim majority southern provinces might be solved politically, with a form of self rule.

The charge created a furor not only on social media under the hashtag Freeboussa which translates (from Arabic) to Free Kiss Also, several Moroccans created social events to protest by daring authorities to kiss in public.

For these reasons, and in light of the Vienna Convention s specific terms, I believe that the EU cannot just move on and hope that the media furor over Snowden s allegations will die down. It must uphold international law.

But the furor missed some of the most interesting questions, focusing (as usual) on Facebook s tone deafness (as usual). Nobody seemed interested in the obvious question of whether the findings reflected a genuine shift in mood, or simply a desire conscious or unconscious to fit in.

But this vision changed in April 2010 when former President Hugo Chávez created his Twitter account, chavezcandanga, which created a furor at the time. For two years afterward, it was an important source of information such as announcements and the president's points of view for the international community. I just talked with our Comrade President Dilma...