While speaking at Web 2.0 Summit last week, Mark Zuckerberg briefly commented on Facebook being used to overthrow bad regimes. The audience chuckled at his comment but the reality is that Facebook has been the source of many protests around the world. Egypt is one place where protests are being staged through the Internet and as the following documentary shows, Facebook is the center of these protests.
The documentary is insightful and extremely powerful and it show how powerful Facebook has become for some. The Egyptian regime has even gone so far as to publish propaganda in which individuals that were temporarily detained saying that they’ll never use Facebook again. It is a powerful documentary that gives some practical ideas to freedom activists in Ethiopia.
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That is why Meles doing…stupid. When i was in addis about couple month ago i was suprised. how weyanes(meles) keep the people cilent. He has fedral police in every block pair in two. Stupid weyanes will pay the price soon.
November 10th, 2008 at 9:18 PM
can they do something like this about Ethiopia?
November 10th, 2008 at 10:20 PM
well done! ER should inform the public just like this instead of flowing different political drummer like Ginbot7
November 11th, 2008 at 2:26 AM
All the same shit in Africa. I dont know why we africans are an agenda of detention and mass torture. I dont know why God has sent all these dictators to our continent. When the silence in Ethiopia will be broken? Actually thanks to the government it is difficult to see a video streaming or sound streaming due to the bad connection there.
God bless Africa. Down with all the dictators from the North to South from the West to East.
November 11th, 2008 at 6:27 AM
you can't even do this in Ethiopia…
November 11th, 2008 at 10:08 AM