1. In the past the government controlled public messages to Arab countries. But now social media can’t be controlled.
2. On January 14 Tunisia became the first nation to revolt against its government.
3. Dr. Lawrence Pintak, founding dean of the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, described the beating of a man who had taped an illegal police activity.
4. Conflict was ignited throughout Arab nations when cell phone pictures of a Tunisian fruit vendor who lit himself on fire in protest of police seizing his fruit cart were broadcast online.
5. Rev. Jesse Jackson says if people became more politically active they could change government policy.
6. Pintak said oppressed lower class Arabs have prepared for years for a revolution in Egypt.
7. In January the Arab Government pulled the plug on the Internet.
8. “I loved the '90s,” Smith said. She said the '90s resulted in more technological innovations than any decade in the 20th century.
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