1. The government has controlled public messages to Arab countries in the past. However, social medias can’t be regulated.
2. The first nation to revolt against its government was Tunisia on Jan.14.
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. A Tunisian fruit vendor who lit himself on fire in protest of police seizing his fruit cart was broadcast online via cell phones, creating conflict throughout Arab nations.
5. If people became politically active than they could change government policy, said Reverend Jesse Jackson. He also talked about lessons learned from the civil rights movement.
6. The 18 day revolution in Egypt was not an unplanned event. The oppressed lower class Arabs had been preparing for years, Pintak said.
7. The Egypt government pulled the plug on the Internet in January.
8. “I loved the 90s,” Smith said. She said the 1990s resulted in more technological innovations that any decade in the 20th century.
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