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face=Tahoma>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
governance-request@lists.cpsr.org [mailto:governance-request@lists.cpsr.org]
<B>On Behalf Of </B>Ginger Paque<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 20, 2011
5:00 AM<BR><B>To:</B> governance@lists.cpsr.org; Khaled
KOUBAA<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [governance] From Free
Tunisia<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial>Thanks for this </FONT>post! It
is very interesting, particularly in juxtaposition to Evgeny Morozov's posts.
See<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/st_essay_totalitarians/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher">http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/st_essay_totalitarians/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher</A><BR><BR>First
paragraph:<BR>The Internet advances the cause of freedom more effectively than
ballistic missiles and <A
href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Predator-surveillance-drone-equipped-Hellfire-missiles-US-missiles-have-killed/photo//101122/photos_wl_pc_afp/c90fce2dbd826f3ea6145570029d0a02//s:/afp/20101122/wl_asia_afp/pakistanunrestusmissile">Hellfire-equipped</A>
drones; at least that’s the conventional wisdom among US diplomats and
policymakers. “Information freedom supports the peace and security that
provide a foundation for global progress” is how Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton put it in a speech last January, her first on democracy and the
Internet. George W. Bush’s “freedom agenda” is out; the Twitter agenda is
in.<U> Unfortunately, this kind of technological romanticism relies on false
historical analogies and sloppy thinking. Modern communications technologies
are already being deployed as new forms of repression.</U><BR><BR>Best,
Ginger<BR><BR>On 1/20/2011 8:18 AM, Khaled KOUBAA wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:4D382F0E.5060705@gmail.com type="cite">All, <BR>For
those who don't know Tunisia : Tunisia is a Small country, great nation.
First Arab country that abolished slavery in 1848. First Arab country to
establish a constitution in 1861. First Arab country to abolish polygamy in
1956. First Arab country to legalize abortion in 1973. Tunisia is the first
Arab country to kick out its dictator and this without the help of any
foreign nation! <BR>Today Tunisia has reached a critical and important point
in its history after succeeding in its revolution. President Ben Ali has
left the country, and government has collapsed leaving the country in an
unpredictable situation. <BR>A new “Coalition Government” has been announced
bringing old dissidents and Human Rights activists in team with a main focus
of preparing a democratic transition. <BR>Friday January 14th 2011, ( <A
class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeLT2PEmnDI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeLT2PEmnDI</A>
) I have been inside the huge protestants in front of the ministry of
Interior and I witnessed brave people asking clearly their dictator to
leave. <BR>Since then Tunisian retrieved their freedom lost many years and
began interesting politics. <BR>Young people went on the street asking for
more n and more social change without being politically coached. <BR>I have
witnessed, and have been part, of the strength of the "real" Tunisian
Internet community to use Internet and Web 2.0 ( Blogs, Video, Facebook,
Twitter, … ) to support the revolution and everyday’s riots showing to the
world what’s happening due to a lack of official local media coverage.
<BR>My life has been different during these days : my house is in a hot
spot; near El Aouina Army Casern and just between the Airport and the US
Embassy. So I took my wife to her father house, and I stayed alone during 5
days. Everything was different each day; night riots with fire shooting
between protestants and police during the first 2 days , near helicopter
surveillance between army and snipers belonging to Ben Ali Presidential
militia during the last 3days. <BR>I have never felt the importance of the
security before that. It was the same feeling that had the Tunisian people
which led them to go out and organize “Population committees” in each city
to protect each city from Ben Ali militia. <BR>Tunisian Internet community
is free today and will show to the world what we are capable to accomplish.
<BR><BR>Vive Internet and thank you Vint and Internet pioneers to gave us
this wonderful tool that helped our revolution. <BR><BR>From the free
Tunisia <BR><BR>Khaled Koubaa
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Paque<BR></B></FONT></FONT><FONT color=#333333><FONT
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online companion to </FONT></FONT><FONT color=#000000><FONT
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