A tweet to overthrow the regime. This is the title we would like to give a "film" that we have seen since January last year in Egypt. A movie not because it "fiction", but because of what happened thanks to the Internet in the North African country, until recently, seemed absurd and unthinkable: a people in revolt, which he uses as a tool to communicate their anger, but above to gather its forces, the web, social networks or better , Will feature in the chronicles of recent times.
blogs and social networks I have conveyed instances of protest, but most of all the information outside the national borders, and acted as reference point for the movement of revolt, and for the organization of the protest eighty-five thousand people joined the Facebook page dedicated to Revolution Day, which is January 25, the day scheduled for the protest of the Egyptians.
But the popular excitement, prompt came the dark regime of censorship that has fallen mostly on that medium, the Internet, which is the bulwark of freedom of expression and its prerequisite. On January 26, both Facebook and Twitter have been made inaccessible throughout Egypt. And not only. Not only were "blacked" sites on the blacklist of the government, but it has also reduced the bandwidth for the connection, creating serious difficulties for those who wanted to surf the web, but also communicate with mobile phones.
But the next day, the creativity and skill of experts cybernauts allowed to go beyond the filters, in fact, the block wanted at the government level, using foreign service-provider. Between January 31 and February 1, even groped for many diseases to bypass the landline, "suggested" by the government, Google Twitter and offered a special service to their users Egyptians, offering them a number where to call to leave voice messages, and so transform them into tweet and circulate them on the Net
And it was thanks to this system and the stubbornness of those who wanted to get out of hand that have come to the world the news about what was happening and the subsequent updates. And tweet (or even the messages conveyed through other social networks) of those who participated or was involved in this grassroots movement has been "bounced" to us. Even those who were abroad and watched from the spectator understands the huge scale of this phenomenon. Do you think that a student at the University of California, John Scott Railton, decided to collect all the tweets of the protest, creating the account # Jan25 , with reference to the day when it began, and that allowed us allows us to read and therefore know the news and updates from the hands of those who are living this experience.
Share passpartout then is to disrupt and climb over the wall created by people who do not want that information flows or the use, properly filtered, to perpetuate a power no longer justified by the sovereignty and popular support.
What has aroused surprise is the observation that the protest did not have a single leader, but has spread to a pandemic among people, creating spontaneous aggregations of people and many leading groups on the web that have made to replicate the protest, as the actual infinity eco e.
The immediate development and viral MEME protest surprised everyone and everyone has been replicated in propagating forward again and spread to the carpet in the minds and consciences of a people exasperated by years of anguish and deprivation. The uncontrolled replication of eco media buzz that has had the best product on the overwhelming military and police forces of the regime.
no weapons or violence, but a message, a witness, word, in short, to move and encourage a people: the power of the Internet as a vehicle for astonishing new meme.
Gian Marco and Claudia Boccanera Nuzzarello.
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