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US & UK Companies Help Egyptian Regime Shut Down Telecommunications and Identify Dissident Voices

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DemocracyNow.org -
Doing the regime's bidding, British-based Vodafone shut down Egypt's phone and internet service. The American company called Narus — owned by Boeing — sold Egypt the surveillance technology that helped identify dissident voices. For more on this story, Democracy Now! interviewed Tim Karr of Free Press and CUNY Professor C.W. Anderson. Karr talks how proposed legislation in the U.S. Senate could set the framework for shutting down communication in the United States during a time of declared "emergency." Anderson traces the radical roots of Twitter to U.S. protests at the 2004 conventions.

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  • This repression should not be allowed for sale to these individuals here or elsewhere.

  • ~• O b a m a IS A B_U_S_H_M_A_N •~

    D I S A P P O I N T M E N T

    Wouldn't B surprised if he also turned out 2 have a SMALL P E N I S.

  • ~

    Have any African leaders ever been TRUE to the PEOPLE & done RiGHT by their country...

    Oh wELL!

    B a ra c k is only half black, so I guess that means he has only

    HALF S O L D

    US OUT, whichever way U wanna look @it. Betcha he & his R gonna make out o'this like Kings, even if the rest of US starve*

    ~•~

  • Israeli communications company... nah... I don't believe it.

  • Trust 9/11 conspiracy nuts to think it's all about them.

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