So, no regime then? Jon Stewart was on al-Barnamag [“The Program”] last year this time and remarked of the then Muslim Brotherhood government’s prosecution of his Egyptian counterpart, Bassem Youssef, for political libel of President Muhammad Morsi, “If your regime can’t handle a joke, you don’t have a regime.” AFP reports: Egypt satirist who mocked […]
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#FreeAzyz spreads on social media as Tunisian blogger-revolutionary is arrested for pot
(Via Your Middle East) Smoking weed or hash is punishable with between one and five years in jail in Tunisia, a law currently used against cyber-activism icon Azyz. On Monday 12 the Tunisian cyber-activism icon Azyz Amami and photographer Sabri Ben Mlouka were arrested in La Goulette, a seaside suburb to Tunis, accused of being […]
Emails suggest Google and the NSA are closer than we knew
reputation has been shaken by evidence to suggest its relationship with the US National Security Agency (NSA) is cosier than anyone thought. If emails obtained by Al Jazeera are to be believed, relations between Google chairman Eric Schmidt and NSA…
New FCC Rules Will Put “Stake in Internet’s Heart”
(By Jon Queally) Defenders of an open, innovative and fair internet are up in arms Thursday after learning the Federal Communications Commission is about to issue new rule proposals that will kill the online principle known as "net neutrality." The death of net neutrality—which has governed the equal treatment of content since the internet was […]
How Iran’s Gadget Bloggers Became Victims of the Revolutionary Guard
Narenji (“Orange”) was Iran’s top website for gadget news, edited daily by a team of tech bloggers who worked from a cramped office in the country’s city of Kerman. The site was targeted at Iran’s growing audience of technology enthusiasts. Like Gizmodo…
Pictures Don’t Lie: Refuting #there_was _ no _ Palestine
One of the common assertions one finds in Zionist propaganda is that there “was never any Palestine.” This odd allegation is simply not true. Palestine has been used for a very long time to refer to the geographical area south of Sidon and north of the Sinai. There are medieval Muslim coins from a mint […]
Standing on the Titanic: Meaningless Iraq Campaign Posters Provoke Satire, Ridicule on Facebook
(By Kholoud Ramzi, Baghdad, for Niqash) Election posters have become a joke to cynical Iraqi voters. Election campaign posters are telling cynical Iraqi voters nothing – there is barely any information on political aims or manifestos. So ordinary Iraqis are getting their own back with ridicule, sarcasm and some judicious photo shopping. Election campaigning […]
Top 5 Things wrong with US AID Social Media Plot Against Cuba
(By Juan Cole) The US Agency for International Development established a microblogging platfrom similar to Twitter for Cubans. It used it to promote critical discussion of the government but also to gather private information of users. Covert operations are supposed to be approved by the White House but it is not clear this one was. […]
Ted Cruz Pwned by own Facebook Poll on Obamacare (Young Turks)
Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks: “Facebook Poll Hilariously Backfires On Senator” Crooks & Liars writes: Ted Cruz, Don’t Ask The Question If You Don’t Want To Know The Answer (via http://crooksandliars.com) Ted Cruz thought he could rile up his followers on Facebook by posting the following “straw poll”: Quick poll: Obamacare was signed into […]