Hitler gets Netflix and hits the internet cap

Clinton on Internet Freedom

Another argument as to the impact of social media: The Political Power of Social Media

Summary: Discussion of the political impact of social media has focused on the power of mass protests to topple governments. In fact, social media's real potential lies in supporting civil society and the public sphere -- which will produce change over years and decades, not weeks or months.

It is good to be the king

How very Darwinian of them. Annoying that they totally miss that this is for a large part a product of federal policy -- it isn't this way in every country.

My Blackberry isn't working

Why'd a Battle-Ready Mubarak Turn Egypt's Internet Back On?

I buy the "cutting off a modern society from the modern communications, organizing, and commerce network that his the modern Internet was simply going out step too far" hypothesis.