Friday, August 19, 2011

Democracies learn from Mubarak's example - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

Democracies learn from Mubarak's example - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

I don't really have anything to add to this. It just seems ironic that as the US is developing "Internet in a suitcase" kits to circumvent oppressive Internet censorship in non-democratic regimes, countries widely regarded as democratic are actually doing the exact opposite, tightening the stranglehold on Internet speech. I think the recent sentencing of the two men who used Facebook to incite a riot that never happened has just gone too far: it's almost as if David Cameron has replicated Assad tactics in the UK for the sole purpose of locking people up.

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