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Famous TV host suspends show in response to censorship | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today's News... - 0 views

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Egypt free_speech media

shared by Sherry Lowrance on 21 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Sherry Lowrance on 21 Oct 11
     
    Egypt's revolution appears to be in trouble, starting with freedom of speech and press.
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.:Middle East Online:.Facebook founder rejects credit for Arab revolt - 0 views

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protests internet technology facebook

shared by Sherry Lowrance on 05 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • "It would be extremely arrogant for any specific technology company to claim credit" for protest movements in the Arab world
  • "People are now having the opportunity to communicate" more widely than ever before, he said, adding: "That's not a Facebook thing. That's an Internet thing."
  • Sherry Lowrance on 05 Jun 11
     
    Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg denied Wednesday that his global social networking site was to thank for enabling the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt through protestors coordinating online.
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.:Middle East Online:.Citizen journalism keeps Syria uprising alive - 2 views

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syria protests internet

shared by Sherry Lowrance on 29 May 11 - No Cached
  • there is no way the regime can stop information or footage, videos, and images from coming out," said Syrian activist Ausama Monajed
  • Monajed runs The Syrian Revolution News Round-up, a daily briefing on protests, clashes and killings using eyewitness accounts and leaked footage taken by mobile phones of protesters that is authenticated to the best of their ability.
  • Major news outlets have regularly aired amateur, grainy footage of rallies and killings, which activists sometimes have to smuggle across the border to neighbouring countries to disseminate, as part of their newscasts
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  • Shaam News Network, which identifies itself as a "group of patriotic Syrian youth activists... supporting the Syrian people's efforts for democratic and peaceful change," has gained popularity for putting news and footage of the uprising online
  • But Assad's government has also launched a cold war on information and communications technology, with activists turning to satellite phones when Internet access is cut off and mobile phone networks jammed
  • Jasmine Revolution" report on protests and killings and sends it to journalists around the world
  • Sherry Lowrance on 29 May 11
     
    Mainstream, new media have increasingly had to rely on citizen journalism amid state-imposed media blackout.
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