ZapBoom - Hide Your Cell Phone: Digital Activism is Criminalized in Egypt

Great work

Hero — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:01:25 -0400

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clarification: no need to hide cell, just hide your digital activism

Mary — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:54:00 -0400

Sorry for my lack of clarity, Maryanne. I meant "hide your cell phone" as a joke. Cell phones aren't illegal in Egypt and won't be.

I just wanted to draw attention to the fact that the powers that be are focusing specifically on digital activism as something they will be attacking. In the past they have attacked digital activism indirectly, arresting people for having "images harmful to the regime," without specifying that those photos were, in all likelihood, digital.

This new stance brings a new threat to digital activists who may now be persecuted merely for taking part in digital activism, no matter the particular result of their actions.

Arrest 60% of Egypt?

Maryanne Stroud Gabbani — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:07:51 -0400

If you walk around Egypt you will see people everywhere using their phones to shoot photos and videos of all sorts of things. Trying to enforce such a "law" would be very, very difficult. It's infinitely easier and cheaper to buy a mobile phone and line in Egypt than it is to get a land line. Virtually everyone works on mobiles here. Mind-boggling thought that someone might try to control it.