It's particularly ironic in light of Google's actions with regard to China's policies about controlling information. Apparently when the repressive government seems to maybe be losing, or it might get them some good press, Google is going to side with the little guys instead? Dr. Stephanie Tuszynski Assistant Professor of Communication Bethany College Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 16:21:11 +0100 From: "Samater Liban \(gmail\)" <samater.liban@gmail.com> To: <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Egypt again - Google and others invent "Voice2Twitter" for Egypt Message-ID: <4d4824fd.179ccc0a.749c.30ef@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Hi! Thought this might interest you: On mashable: http://mashable.com/2011/01/31/google-twitter-egypt-call-service/

From mashable: A group of engineers from Google, Twitter and SayNow (which Google acquired last week) were hard at work building a speak-to-tweet service for protesters in Egypt this weekend.

The service, which is already live, enables users to send tweets using a voice connection. Anyone can tweet by leaving a voicemail on one of three international phone numbers: +16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855. Tweets sent using the service will automatically include the hashtag #egypt. **************** I think the interesting part is, that tech companies have now actively decided to build a workaround for a government issued ban on parts of communication, which actually is a corporate action against a state - or not? Who/what governs such actions by corporations? Well - thought it may enrich your day - have a good one. sam This message may contain confidential information for the use of the addressee(s) above and may contain legally privileged information. If you are not the addressee, or the person responsible for delivering it to the addressee, you are hereby notified that reading, disseminating, distributing or copying this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message by mistake, immediately notify us by replying to the message and delete the original message immediately. Thank you.