Black People : Gbabgbo, Social Networking, and the assasination of Black media

This is how it all stareted in Egypt and now the US as heard the voice of the masses, and the dictator' cabinet has fled and Washigton is making plans from Mubarak to exit,
and all from outrage about an act of police brutality

police brutality!


sound familiar???????? and yet, after the long list of incidents our community has suffered in one year alone;
look at what we do on facebook and twitter


But Mr. Said’s death may be the starkest example yet of the special power of social networking tools like Facebook even — or especially — in a police state. The Facebook page set up around his death offered Egyptians a rare forum to bond over their outrage about government abuses.

“Prior to the murder of Khaled Said, there were blogs and YouTube videos that existed about police torture, but there wasn’t a strong community around them,” said Jillian C. York, the project coordinator for the OpenNet Initiative of the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society at Harvard University. “This case changed that.”


While it is almost impossible to isolate the impact of social media tools from the general swirl of events that set off the popular uprisings across the Middle East, there is little doubt that they provided a new means for ordinary people to connect with human rights advocates trying to amass support against police abuse, torture and the Mubarak government’s permanent emergency laws allowing people to be jailed without charges.

Facebook and YouTube also offered a way for the discontented to organize and mobilize — and allowed secular-minded young people to seize the momentum from Egypt’s relatively neutered, organized opposition.



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41442005/ns/world_news-the_new_york_times/
 

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