I…., governments gravitate in low fashion for the cheapest alternative. The payment of peanuts results in a monkey return.

The Australian and Canadian examples serve as salient lessons to those in government who forget their duties to the public. If you get into the bed of a sociopathic, petulant founder who could only conceive of dating girls through digital networks, using such skin-crawling argot as “the poke”, you are asking for trouble. Even more to the point, you are asking for some share of the blame in forfeiting your duties. Surely it would be more prudent for governments to establish their own information channels in times of crisis, invest in public broadcasters and improve their services to areas of a country, however remote?

Source: Defriending Canada: Natural Disasters and Facebook’s Information Scrub – » The Australian Independent Media Network