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U.S. creates 'panic button' for democracy activists

article published on 26 March, 2011

The U.S. State Department is developing and pushing new technology to help democracy activists and other protesters around the world to get around blocks and censorship. One of the new technologies it is pushing is a panic button app made for mobile phones. In the recent slew of protests throughout the middle east, mobile phones have played a big part in driving the protests. However, ... [ read the full article ]

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elbald90
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26. March 2011 @ 06:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
all this from the people who tried to shut down wikileaks , lmao can anyone smell hypocrisy ?
Rafym14
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26. March 2011 @ 13:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
How can u promote democracy when when our gov is supporting dictators,Bahrain,Jordan,Yemen,Saudi Arabia they all are killings his people ,did u see a no fly zone for palestine or any of this countries ? no .our own democracy is at stake .
Bozobub
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27. March 2011 @ 12:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The big difference between Libya and the rest of the Arabic countries in unrest is quite simple: only the Libyan rebels actually directly ASKED the US/NATO/UN for help. You can't cry about US "kingmaking", then decry its lack later, sorry. Maybe you shouldn't have burnt so many Uncle Sam effigies on international TV?

In fact, the rebels in most of those countries have asked other, non-Arab nations to stay out.
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