Suppress Our Tweets… We’ll Still Take The Streets!
By mike flugennockThursday - February 3rd, 2011Categories: Middle East, libertyTags:Egypt, Mubarak, Revolution, Tunisia
Recent events in Tunisia and Egypt have proven that the Internet and social networking on the Web have been instrumental in organizing and inspiring people to rise up against tyranny and spreading the news, but any desperate dictator out there should know by now that simply shutting off the Internet can’t stop a real revolution — especially in Egypt, where President Mubarak was a day late and a dollar short in trying to stop a popular uprising by crippling the Internet.
Here’s a piece that was inspired by a sign I saw carried by someone at last Saturday’s solidarity demonstration at the Egyptian Embassy:
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