There are a couple of totalitarian countries where their citizens have used the internet and social networks to resist the government. For example, Egyptians were speaking their mind on websites such as facebook, blogs, and twitter. They would talk and plot in these social networks to end the 30 year rule of President Hosni Mubarak. Social networks have been a problem also with the uprising in Tunisia and ousted President Zine el-Albidine Ben Ali. Twitter was a main part of the uprising in Iran last year. Although all these things have been banned they have found a couple ways ways to go around the ban. For instance,they have been voice tweeting, "Anyone can tweet by simply leaving a voice mail on one of these international phone numbers ... and the service will instantly tweet the message using the hashtag #egypt," Google explians. "No Internet connection is required."
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