[Chapter-delegates] Egypt blocking Facebook & Twitter

[Fred Baker]

On Jan 31, 2011, at 6:16 AM, Kabani wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> ISOC Pakistan would like to share that how in similar case, how we and Civil Society played the role to restore the facebook and twitter in court case in Pakistan.

Do you have a paper you can point to? I think this would be very beneficial.

> Best Regards
> 
> 
> Asif Kabani
> 
> On 27 January 2011 02:53, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> http://www.allfacebook.com/egypt-blocks-access-to-facebook-2011-01
> 
> 
> Egypt’s blockage was confirmed by Jillian York, a project coordinator at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society that oversees the Herdict service, who sent an email to Reuters.
> 
> Egypt’s blockage of Facebook today follows a similar move against Twitter yesterday, TechCrunch has reported, as the microblogging site has also helped protesters organize themselves.
> Will the Egyptian government’s efforts to block access to social media ultimately strengthen protesters’ resolve and possibly strengthen support for the demonstration outside of Egypt?
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