Facebook's policy, which bans any breastfeeding images uploaded that show nipples, has led an online profile by protestors - called "lactivists" in some circles - called "Hey Facebook, breast feeding is not obscene".
Over a month since demonstrations started on the streets of Hong Kong calling for full democracy, images of umbrellas are still trending online - but protestors have focussed in on one umbrella in particular.
He was greeted by protestors, both online and off.
Excitement spread online: meme-worthy scenes of protestors cleaning up after themselves circulated on social media — testaments to Taiwanese politeness, a point of pride in contrast to the supposedly uncouth Chinese.
Now facing its tenth month of unrest, the Assad regime in Syria continues to try to silence protestors both offline and online.
As the firing of Cole White indicates, the identification of participants in these protests has implications and not everyone online is comfortable with the outing of protestors (on both the right and the left).
Characters: Me, and Right to Life Protestors ("Protestor One" and "Protestor Two", collectively "Protestors").
Online auctioneer eBay ebay has posted more than 125 Elian-related items, many of them trinkets from protestors, selling for several dollars each. Yet the big-ticket item, as far as bidders are concerned, was the raft.
It will be interesting to revisit the performance ratings shown in the next section when data becomes available concerning more precise numbers of protestors, e.g. if protestors start uploading reliable images of the crowd to a freely available online source.
During the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Cohen convinced Twitter to stay online despite a scheduled maintenance that would have temporarily shut it down in Iran, where it was being used by protestors to reach international media.
