Tyranny of the minority vs the silence of the majority

I'm refreshing an old link on new media that goes very well with this idea of how the virtual world does not give us accurate picture of the real world -- a phenomenon I have discussed in a recent post on the election where PAP won a landslide victory....Click to read on: spiral of silence

In a nutshell, two concepts at work here on social media: tyranny of the  minority and the silence of the majority.
In the recent election, however, we witnessed what has been termed in the papers as 'the roar of the majority' that precipitated a national vote swing towards the ruling party, dealing the opposition a crushing defeat.....

Let's discuss this if we meet again for those who are keen.....