While speaking at Web 2.0 Summit last week, Mark Zuckerberg briefly commented on Facebook being used to overthrow bad regimes. The audience chuckled at his comment but the reality is that Facebook has been the source of many protests around the world. Egypt is one place where protests are being staged through the Internet and as the following documentary shows, Facebook is the center of these protests.
The documentary is insightful and extremely powerful and it show how powerful Facebook has become for some. The Egyptian regime has even gone so far as to publish propaganda in which individuals that were temporarily detained saying that they’ll never use Facebook again. It is a powerful documentary that gives some practical ideas to freedom activists in Ethiopia.