Digital Darkness: US, UK Companies Help Egyptian Regime Shut Down Telecommunications and Identify Dissident Voices

"Doing the regime’s bidding, British-based Vodaphone shut down Egypt’s phone and internet service. The American company called Narus — owned by Boeing — sold Egypt the surveillance technology that helped identify dissident voices. We are joined by Tim Karr, of Free Press and CUNY Professor C.W. Anderson. Anderson traces the radical roots of Twitter to U.S. protests at the 2004 conventions...."