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Pueblo, CO | What's the motive? Why did the Mubarak regime turn the internet back on just in time for the attacks on the people?
Is it so the masses in other cities will see what is coming and fear it? Is it to anger/confuse them so that the people will be more amiable to the 'compromise' of appointing Suleiman being pushed by the Obama administration? Or did whomever is sitting on the routers decide to join the revolution?
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Mount Airy, MD | Enjoy It While It Lasts Because once the Muslim Brotherhood is in charge in Egypt, the media will be about as free as it is in Iran.
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kudos:5 | Re: Enjoy It While It Lasts said by pnh102:Because once the Muslim Brotherhood is in charge in Egypt, the media will be about as free as it is in Iran.
Yes, internet freedom & free speech won - FOR NOW. But in the long term, Egypt will just become another sink hole like Iran where a theocracy snuffs out any freedom and the Internet will be once again a closed platform. | |
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kudos:2 | Re: Enjoy It While It Lasts Iran has slow, filtered, monitored internet...which allows for slow, unfiltered, unmonitored VPNs... | |
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|  TechieZeroTools Are Using MePremium
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| said by pnh102:Because once the Muslim Brotherhood is in charge in Egypt, the media will be about as free as it is in Iran.
LOL if you had a few days of unrestricted internet left...what would you do? | |
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Billings, MT | Re: Enjoy It While It Lasts said by TechieZero:LOL if you had a few days of unrestricted internet left...what would you do? Build a huge caching proxy and fill it as fast as I could. | |
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| | | The Muslim Brotherhood is not supportive of extremist views. And they are but a fraction of the Egyptian political scene. They will not be in charge of Egypt.
Muslim does not equal terrorist or oppressive government. Do the KKK and Westboro Church represent Christian values? No. Nor is fair to broadly paint Muslims by the actions of terrorist extremist or dysfunctional theocracies.
And considering that part of what the Egyptians have been demonstrating for is more personal freedoms, I think it's more than reasonable to assume their new government will be secular / tolerant. | |
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Mount Airy, MD | Re: Enjoy It While It Lasts said by lvbeagle:The Muslim Brotherhood is not supportive of extremist views. Sorry, I had to stop reading right there. Please go do some reading on the Muslim Brotherhood and what they support, and feel free to contribute.
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Mount Airy, MD | Re: Enjoy It While It Lasts said by Parogadi:Sorry, but everyone who has been interviews on the Brotherhood who actually knows WTF they're talking about has said that while yes, Al Queda founding members did get their start in the organization back in the 60's, they where all pushed out because of their extremist views. So you think that their calls for jihad and the beheadings of those with whom they don't agree are not extremist. Interesting.
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Racine, WI | Re: Enjoy It While It Lasts Sorry, but I don't go by 50+ year old info. | |
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| | | | | Their wikipedia entry covers their organization pretty well.
They've condemned the 9/11 attacks and terrorism. They advocate for the spread of Islam through nonviolent means. I would call that pretty unsupportive of extremist views.
I classify them as a religious political organization. Their American equivalent would be something like the Christian Coalition. | |
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3 edits | Re: Enjoy It While It Lasts said by lvbeagle:Their wikipedia entry covers their organization pretty well.
They've condemned the 9/11 attacks and terrorism. They advocate for the spread of Islam through nonviolent means. I would call that pretty unsupportive of extremist views.
I classify them as a religious political organization. Their American equivalent would be something like the Christian Coalition.
A tenet of faith of Muslim fundamentalists says the Koran tells them it is OK to lie to the infidel to advance their cause of having Islam takeover the world. Well, you just got lied to, no matter what is in their Wikipedia entry.
»hauns.com/~DCQu4E5g/koran5.html
»www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran···iyya.htm | |
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| | | | | | | Re: Enjoy It While It Lasts Thank you, oh expert of lying. I'd like to know who this 'tenant' is so Allah can evict his sorry ass. | |
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kudos:2 | Medical Solution I hear the US is going to solve this problem very quickly. Their going to send a plane full of chiropractors.
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Fort Lauderdale, FL | Re: Medical Solution Huh? Is that a really high brow joke? Or something to do with walking like an Egyptian? That song has been in my head since this whole thing started incidentally.
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kudos:2 | Re: Medical Solution What's the capitol of Egypt... | |
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Oh...... LOL
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Hightstown, NJ | Protesters What the protesters are mad about is low cap high per gig overages from their ISP's. All Mubarak has to do is allow true unlimited internet access and he will be able to keep his job for another 30 years. | |
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Gibsonton, FL | Re: Protesters ROFL | |
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kudos:1 | oh! OH oh! Is this my chance to be like everyone else when I talk about internet restrictions and say to them "IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, MOVE HA HA HA HA , I GOT MINE!!!!! LAWL!!!"
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Seattle, WA | heh "In other news the popular online social networking site Facebook went off line momentarily , as the Egyptian government allowed ISPs to resume traffic outside it's borders. The game Farmville had been a destination for many, but the calm quickly subsided as individuals realized that their overall scores had went down, demanding that Mubarak pay for the damages. "
No but seriously good luck guys (and girls). | |
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Gaithersburg, MD | NOOO!! If they turn teh interwebs back on for Egypt, there'll be less for the rest of us!!  | |
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join:2003-07-11
Pleasant Hill, CA | The fastest way to produce a riot of young people... Is to turn off their internet which REALLY pi$$es them off and THEN since they have nothing better to do with their newly flamed anger... they hit the streets (instead of just staying home and bitching on twitter and phacebook)
Nice one Mr dicktator
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