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Wael Ghonim on ‘Revolution 2.0’

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Posted on Mar 6, 2011

The Google executive who helped organize the Egyptian uprising compares the movement to Wikipedia, with many individuals contributing in their own ways.

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By Psychobabbler, March 10, 2011 at 1:56 am Link to this comment

I tried to start a revolution on Facebook.

It does not work.

Maybe there will be an update for that.

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By drbhelthi, March 9, 2011 at 3:14 pm Link to this comment

Who pays his salary, Google, C.I.A. or MOSSAD?

Or one of the Zionist benefactors ?

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By MO, March 8, 2011 at 9:00 pm Link to this comment
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Well Said Gerard. It is all about people’s convictions of their hearts and minds. Google and Facebook just tools period.

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By gerard, March 6, 2011 at 11:17 pm Link to this comment

PS—and it is the people who will do the reorganizing, the hard work of bringing about the many necessary changes.  Google is, after all, just another money-driven corporation.  The people is where the soul is.

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By gerard, March 6, 2011 at 11:12 pm Link to this comment

Yeah, sure.  Google and WikiLeaks and the Internet combined to help people communicate and share ideas and feelings—but—- it was the people themselves, from the convictions of their hearts and minds, that united and assembled in the common interests of justice and reform.

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