Why was Facebook blocked in Egypt amid protests, a day after Twitter was?

I think it was wrong and extremely scary. The article that I read on it was on Yahoo! And can be found here:finance.yahoo.com/news/The-day-part-of-the.

Facebook was dropped in Egypt because it was working too well! It played a historic/ major role in galvanizing/ orgainizing the protestors! The government shut it down to stop/ slow down the communication!

What they didn't understand is the backlash against that. You can mess with a lot of things; but don't mess with my internet connection! That can rile someone up!

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To stop the spread of news of revolution in the world.

To be perfectly frank, the Egyptian people (and a lot of people around the world, actually) don't really enjoy the same freedoms and liberties to free speech like the people in the US do. Unfortunate, but true. It's a rare event to see the Egyptian people speak out so poorly about the President in such volumes; I don't think it was actually kosher for people to speak badly about the President, and sometimes suffered consequences.

The government is extremely corrupt, as we are witnessing nowadays. The government even had a hand in forcing some of the mobile networks to sent out texts to the demonstrators--something that probably would not be okay in the US. Basically, I think that the right to communication without censorship or alteration is something that these people are fighting for, too, with their protests.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.