The Woyanne ruling junta in Ethiopia is relentlessly trying to control people’s access to independent media. Among its first targets were news web sites such EthiopianReview.com that have been blocked in Ethiopia for the past five years. Woyanne then went after VOA, DW, and ESAT.
The international community has so far been silent in the face of such blatant violation of international agreements, particularly Article 35 of the International Telecommunications Convention.
To bypass Woyanne’s blockade of Ethiopian Review, we have been sending out updates by e-mail to readers in Ethiopia. This week we took further step in trying to enable our readers in Ethiopia have access to articles published on EthiopianReview.com through Facebook. Click here to see Ethiopian Review’s Facebook page.
We urge readers to inform families and friends at home to connect with Ethiopian Review in Facebook.
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In today’s technology there are tools to buttress Meles Zenawis blocked of information going in and coming out of Ethiopia. To do that it needs a distributed coordination among Ethiopians in diaspora. For example the millions of computers owned by Ethiopians can be turned in to proxy and mirror servers without much of an effort for Ethiopians in the country.
There are tools to collect information verify them as well as disseminate that can interface with mobile telephones, web pages, even word of mouth. And to top all of that used correctly it is virtually impossible for Meles Zenawi to track or block any information.
But there is a catch. The system should not have any one centre. Just like the Internet. It should not under the control of any one entity and every one has to share, use and contribute to it alike. The more people join the system the robust and impossible to control it will become.
The biggest hurdle of creating such a system among Ethiopians is the siege mentality of the people who are controlling bits of what ever medium that is available. Be it a website, political organization, civic organization…etc. Every one has built a tall wall to not late any one have access or influence on their realm of influence. And this in turn helps Meles Zenawi to selectively pick any threat that has the potential to disrupt his monopoly of power.
Isat and the web sites are perfect examples of that order.
Even with more technology and control the descendants of countries like Iran and Burma can access every detail of atrocities in the respective countries while the begar and backward Meles Zenawi regime went unnoticed while committing all those atrocities in the country. the difference is that the opponents of the regimes in Burma and Iran cooperate and coordinate their effort while Ethiopians arn’t.
Meles Zenawi does not have a fraction of the support of the regimes in Zimbabwe, or Iran, or Burma has. Though dictators this regimes are run by people who have nationalist agenda. Meles Zenawi doesn’t and Every Ethiopians knows it including his supporters. It should not be that difficult to defeat him.
This is good idea Elias. The only problem is that the tyrant will block Facebooks access in the country like other informative sites including ethiopianreview.com . You know these gangs are wild like a mad dog. They do not even know what they are doing. For them, there is no 2-3 computation. They even wonder what 3-2 mean?
Congratulation Ethiopian Review
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I THINK ETHIOPIAN PEOPLE SHOULD BE A WARE OF HOW THIER GOVERNMENT IS HANDLING THE ECONOMY AND LET THEM NOT SUPRISED THAT POLITICIAN ALWAYS A MISTAKE.