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• •  Yet few doubt that much of the momentum built in June 2010, when a Google employee named Wael Ghonim anonymously started a Facebook page to commemorate the death of Khaled Said, beaten to death by police for flaunting drug possession online.
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• Yet few doubt that much of the momentum built in June 2010, when
• a Google employee named Wael Ghonim anonymously started a Facebook page to commemorate the death of Khaled Said, beaten to death by police for flaunting drug possession online.
• • Face book was used to transmit pictures of policefiring into the crowd, prof. howard
• Philip N. Howard, director of the Project on Information Technology and Political Islam at the University of Washington,
• Facebook images of the police shooting rubber bullets into a crowd,"

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• • Wilson Rothman is the Deputy Technology & Science Editor at msnbc.com, and a columnist who muses on gadgets, tech trends and how much more interesting our lives have gotten since everything went digital.
    
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• On Jan. 27, just before the Egyptian government turned off the Internet for all Egyptians, Facebook saw six times more traffic than Google inside the country. Then came the outage. Then came the protests. Two weeks later, and with relatively little bloodshed, the 30-year government of Hosni Mubarak ended. It's indisputable that the Internet and social media played a pivotal role. In fact, the revolution may not have happened without them.
• Yet few doubt that much of the momentum built in June 2010, when a Google employee named Wael Ghonim anonymously started a Facebook page to commemorate the death of Khaled Said, beaten to death by police for flaunting drug possession online.
•  the WikiLeaks document was not even clear whether or not the "sensitive" revolutionary plan was on the Internet 
• The Khaled Said page and the page run by the April 6 Youth Movement, itself with tens of thousands of followers, both advertised the protests, news of which also blew through Twitter and over mobile phones via SMS.
• Egypt holds the dubious honor of being the first country to shut off its Internet,
• Cell phone and landline voice service continued, but SMS text messaging was also disabled.
• Essentially only people who could dial up internationally via telephone modem — at a significant per-minute cost for a trickle of bandwidth — could stay connected during this outage, said Cowie.
• On Monday, Feb. 1, a service called SpeakToTweet, launched by Google and Twitter, brought voices of Net-deprived Egyptians to the global forum of Twitter by way of a phone number. Just like regular voicemail, people could call and leave a message.

• "Taking away the Internet brings attention to people's protests in a way that the protests by themselves can't muster," Cowie said. The images and videos that escaped during the outage were rendered more uplifting and powerful by their illicit nature. "How do you make everybody care?" asks Cowie. "Turn off the Internet."

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• • "the same Web Tools that so many Americans use to keep up with college pals and post passing thoughts have a more noble role as well, the scourge of despotism"

• • What role does the internet play
    inside Russia and China?
    Morozov "These societies are changing and the
    internet is playing a huge role in facilitating
    the changes. But we should not assume that
    this is a development that will bring with it
    more human rights, or make people care
    about the values of civil society"

  • Morozov, "I wrote an article in the Wall Street
    Journal recently arguing that the internet is
    the new gas for Russia and China – especially
    China."

• • Egypt pics in turmoil

• • Egypt riot police marching pics

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• • Warning order issued by us embassy cairo, currently.

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• Online activists inside and outside the country passed along information about how to work around the shutdown, like using dial-up Internet connections in other countries.
• • GREAT CHART THAT GRAPHS THE INTERNET ACTIVITY
    SPECIFIC WEB/COMMUNICATION TOOLS USED 
• The shutdown caused a 90 percent drop in data traffic to and from Egypt, crippling an important communications tool used by antigovernment protesters and their supporters to organize and to spread their message.
• Egypt, to an unprecedented extent, pulled itself off the grid.
• cut off access entirely; Myanmar did so in 2007, as did Nepal two years earlier.
• A Facebook spokesman, Andrew Noyes, said the company had seen a drop in traffic from Egypt on Thursday and only minimal traffic on Friday.
• Online activists inside and outside the country passed along information about how to work around the shutdown, like using dial-up Internet connections in other countries.
• Bill Woodcock, research director of the Packet Clearing House, a company that supports and studies Internet infrastructure around the world, said the Egyptian government had led the way in promoting the development of the Internet within the country.
• • ARTICLE BY MATT RITCHELL
    CONTRIBUTOR MIGUEL HELFT
• The shutdown may actually be creating more unrest, said Prof. Mohammed el-Nawawy of the communications department at Queens University of Charlotte
• “The government has made a big mistake taking away the option at people’s fingertips,” he said. “They’re taking their frustration to the streets.”

• He added: “Blogs are not important right now. Things have moved beyond that point.”

   

  • Professor el-Nawawy mentioning blogs as important
• Miguel Helft contributed reporting.

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• Internet cafe in Alexandria last June by two plainclothes police officers, who witnesses say then beat him to death in the lobby of a residential building.
• Gamal Eid, 47, a lawyer and executive director of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information in Cairo
• said that Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and cellphones made it easy for human rights advocates to get out the news
• Facebook has been the social networking tool of choice for human rights activists in Egypt.
• and other human rights advocates have also turned to Twitter and to YouTube,
• “We are Khaled. Each one of us can be Khaled.”

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