December 2010
-Tunisia-Ben Ali
- Dictator
- Police state
- Press censorship
- Corruption
Mohamed Buazizi- He burnt himself outside the town hall in Tunisia because no one was listening to him. He police refused to write a report about what happened to him. So he burnt himself outside the town hall, no media, no press came to record what has happening to him, what he was doing. The incident was not on TV, but ordinary people of the society become citizen journalists and recorded what was happening. They made videos viral about what was happening, they posted it up everywhere by use of internet.
Azyz Amami- "the reason why i hate myself so much is because i have no right". They could not give their view about something or they couldn't give opinions about something because they didn't have the right to. He later then says that "you can't live if your afraid.
Sleem and Azyz then thought it was not fair on what happened to their best friend, Mohamed. So they decide to protest, in the protest no media was involved because they will all scared of the Ruler, Ben Ali.
- Everything was recorded on mobile phones and shared around the whole world.
- Went viral
- Then got picked up by Al Jazeera news channel
- 6th January, Sleem and Azyz were arrested
- 150 people were already dead in the protest.
- 15th January Ben Ali gave an lecture about censorship and demoracy.
- He used the old traditional media to get his lecture out, he used TV.
Another protest then took place again in front of the place where Sleem and Azyz were arrested. They tried making this protest a big one, so protesters hacked the the unions websites and sent off a message to everyone about the protest.
- People were getting warning signals on Twitter and Facebook of which route to take.
- Their was live mobile streaming, which shows how immediate the internet is.
- Ben Ali could not do anything about things going viral because the internet does not have a central tube, it cannot be censored.
- At the time quarter of people in Tunisia had home broadband and 90% of them had a mobile phone.
Ben Ali ruled for 24 years and it only took 28days for him to come from dictatorship to pluralism and democracy.
My view: I personally don't think that there would be revolution without Facebook because people will not be able to raise their voices about what is happening around the world. It will always be the government who will make the decisions and face the negatives of it. A new world will not be created, the government will always be dictating. Facebook allows millions of people to give their views about small issues and things which take place, so i think without Facebook there will be no revolution.
Egypt
- Vodafone was switched off by the government, so that no one can have access to the internet.
- This also stopped people from having updates about what was happening.
- This was a very intelligent move which the government took, as they know that by closing Vodafone network, people would not be able to communicate, this is the reason why then decided to walk out of their houses and get on the streets to find out what was happening. People started protesting again when they left their houses, not only a few people came out, hundreds of people came out.
My view: I personally don't think that there would be revolution without Facebook because people will not be able to raise their voices about what is happening around the world. It will always be the government who will make the decisions and face the negatives of it. A new world will not be created, the government will always be dictating. Facebook allows millions of people to give their views about small issues and things which take place, so i think without Facebook there will be no revolution.
Egypt
- Vodafone was switched off by the government, so that no one can have access to the internet.
- This also stopped people from having updates about what was happening.
- This was a very intelligent move which the government took, as they know that by closing Vodafone network, people would not be able to communicate, this is the reason why then decided to walk out of their houses and get on the streets to find out what was happening. People started protesting again when they left their houses, not only a few people came out, hundreds of people came out.
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