NA It's really interesting because the protest on Saturday, for us it was titled as a very British issue and is a very British issue, and there's two Cs I don't really like to hear when it comes to the issue of FGM: community and culture.
Leaving aside the irony of this outrageous perversion of that phrase, I find it interesting that Internet protests, almost universally a laughing stock for years now, have suddenly been determined to be deadly effective.
How interesting that Phil Woolas identifies protest as anti-British, while British democracy is itself built on a proud history of protest.
"The interesting thing about the protest camp for me is that St Paul's is very, very good at doing the grandeur and otherness of God.
The fact that Pussy Riot are all female and proudly feminist brings an interesting dimension to their protest: "The revolution should be done by women," one of its members told the Guardian this week.
What's perhaps more interesting, is that the protest started to gain traction in India, where people revolted against the "zero rating" principle by giving bad rates to the Android and iOS apps of e-commerce giant Flipkart (one of the first to hop on the local versione of the Internet.org platform, Airtel Zero).
Which is what makes Tuesday morning's first protest so interesting.
What's interesting about editing the protest scene prior to that even happening was that I still had some weird feeling like... Is this something that could happen?
Contrary to Malcolm Gladwell's flip assertion, repeated in the article that "surely the least interesting thing about [the protests] is that some of the protesters may (or may not) have at one point or another employed some of the tools of new media," the emergent media ecology is among the most important issues thrown up by this amazing wave of people-powered uprisings.
"What's interesting is that these protests were not over a practical issue but over a conceptual issue," Hung Huang, a news media and fashion entrepreneur, said in a telephone interview.
