Invisible Children has written a response at http://s3.amazonaws.com/www.invisiblechildren.com/critiques.html
http://visiblechildren.tumblr.com/post/18954353409/not-alone has links to other critiques. On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 19:32, Yaw Anokwa <yanokwa at gmail.com> wrote: > You may have heard about Kony 2012. It is a film and campaign by > Invisible Children that aims to make "Joseph Kony > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kony) famous, not to celebrate > him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for > international justice." The film is at > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc. > > While almost everyone agrees that Joseph Kony is a bad person, > Invisible Children has been criticized for their approach. Grant > Oyston lays out some of those arguments against Kony 2012 at > http://visiblechildren.tumblr.com/post/18890947431/we-got-trouble. The > follow on posts are also informative. > > The spread of the Kony meme, both for and against, has been possible > only because of social media. In that sense, it's quite relevant to > those of us interested in leveraging technology for change... > > Yaw
