Anonymous Internet Users Team Up To Provide Communication Tools For Egyptian People - HuffPo

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Anonymous Internet Users Team Up To Provide Communication Tools For Egyptian People

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"Internet not working, police cars burning," sent out one Egyptian. "Today marks a great day for Egypt," sent out another.

These messages weren't coming from mobile phones or computers, but from an amateur radio sending out Morse Code somewhere amidst the chaos in Egypt. The Egyptian government's efforts to limit communications within the country has triggered a wave of activism from an international group of free speech activists on the Internet called Telecomix.

Organizing using chat rooms, wikis, and collaborative writing tools, this largely anonymous group has worked to inform Egyptians about their communications options while receiving incoming messages from them. Telecomix has previously worked on free speech efforts in Tunisia, Iran, China and other countries who have tried to censor or block parts of the Internet.

Egypt has been identified as a "top priority" for Telecomix on one of its network sites, We Re-Build. It has a wiki set up as a one-stop shop with the latest chat rooms and resources for the ongoing efforts.

There are roughly 20 extremely active members, 50 active and some 300 total including lurkers, according to chat administrator Christopher Kullenberg from Gothenburg, Sweden. "Think of Telecomix as an ever growing bunch of friends that do things together," Kullenberg says.

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Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/29/anonymous-internet-egypt_n_815889.html

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Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/29/how-to-help-egypt-get-online_n_815880.html#s232583&title=torproject

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[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. I just knew Egypt could become just like Sweden!

Good job!