Stop Everything and Watch Egypt (The Reformed Broker)

• Joshua M Brown
 
• January 28th, 2011

There is something happening on the streets of Cairo that could potentially spread to backwards, repressed capitals around the Middle East.

The kids have had enough.  They would like to join the rest of the world now, thank you very much.  Tens of thousands of mostly secular, mostly young protesters are facing down security forces as I write.

The internet has not only disrupted the music retailing and print journalism worlds - it is helping to shove some of the last remaining corroded and corrupt regimes off the precipice as we bore our way into the young 21st Century.  The dictators know it; their playbook involves silencing social networks and online access at the first hint of unrest.

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