Did CNN really think shutting down the Internet would end the revolution?

RandySF

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Tue Feb-01-11 03:45 AM
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Did CNN really think shutting down the Internet would end the revolution?

By listening to CNN, you would think that shutting down cell phones and access to Facebook was a fatal blow to the revolution. What percentage of Egyptians had regular Internet access anyway? and how did revolutions get started in the days before there was even a telephone?

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malaise

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Tue Feb-01-11 04:27 AM
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1. Poor CNN

I hope someone interviews the young people of Egypt to see whether the reverse was true. It seems to me that by shutting off their technology the regime made it easy for all classes to join the uprising/revolution. If you can't stay home and use social media, you might as well join others in the streets.

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Journeyman

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Tue Feb-01-11 04:33 AM
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2. How very true, malaise. How very true. . .

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ejpoeta

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Tue Feb-01-11 07:04 AM
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3. because the french revolution and the american revolution were all started by

the internet!! omfg! mar ant sucks!! meet at the the arc!

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