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U.S., U.K. Companies Help Egyptian Regime Shut Down Telecommunications and Identify Dissident Voices | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1252636 United Kingdom 02/02/2011 01:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | U.S., U.K. Companies Help Egyptian Regime Shut Down Telecommunications and Identify Dissident Voices 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. We are joined by Tim Karr of Free Press and CUNY Professor C.W. Anderson. Karr outlines how communications was shut down in Egypt and discusses the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, a proposed Senate bill that could lay the foundation for blocking communications in the United States in the case of a "national threat." Anderson traces the activist roots of Twitter to U.S. protests at the 2004 Republican and Democratic conventions. [includes rush transcript] [link to www.democracynow.org] |
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