{"id":1391,"date":"2011-01-16T22:56:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T03:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2011-01-17T02:03:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T07:03:07","slug":"tweeting-tyrants-out-of-tunisia-global-internet-at-its-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1391","title":{"rendered":"Tweeting Tyrants Out of Tunisia: Global Internet at Its Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 207px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cheriefm.fr\/media\/blogs\/tyssem31\/President_Ben_Ali.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cheriefm.fr\/media\/blogs\/tyssem31\/President_Ben_Ali.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has fled the country<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Even yesterday, it would have been too much to say that blogger, tweeters, Facebook users, Anonymous and Wikileaks had \u00e2\u20ac\u0153brought down\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the Tunisian government, but with today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s news that the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has fled the country, it becomes a more plausible claim to make.<\/p>\n<p>Of course there was more to such demonstrations than some new technology. An individual act of desperation set off the last month of rioting, as a college-educated young man set himself on fire after police confiscated his unlicensed fruit and vegetable cart. Tunisia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s high unemployment rate, rampant corruption and rising food prices added to the anger at Ben Ali\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 20-plus-year rule.<\/p>\n<p>People risked their lives in the street, with some getting a bullet for their troubles, but the internet played a significant role in organizing these protests and in disseminating news and pictures of them to the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2011\/01\/tunisia\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2011\/01\/tunisia\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Even yesterday, it would have been too much to say that blogger, tweeters, Facebook users, Anonymous and Wikileaks had \u00e2\u20ac\u0153brought down\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the Tunisian government, but with today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s news that the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has fled the country, it becomes a more plausible claim to make. Of course there was more to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}