Facebook is the number one social networking site throughout the world. This is mostly due to its ever expanding languages that the social networking site comes with. Facebook now comes with over 100 languages. The Facebook staff claims they will not stop there, they want to try and reach ever corner of the Earth. What does this have to do with Iraq? For a long time Facebook did not come with Arabic, the most used language in Iraq. Arabic was not an easy language to translate, claims Jessica Lee a writer for www.insidefacebook.com. Lee goes on to state: "What’s interesting... Continue reading

Social networks have been spreading and taking over the world. They have most impacted Egypt and Tunisia where social networks have not only helped start a revolt against the government, but have kept the revolution alive as well. People of Iraq were not big users of Facebook in the year of 2008. In the year 2009, however, Iraq has seen a huge jump of Facebook users. Jessica Lee, a writer for www.insidefacebook.com, writes a piece called "Facebook Rapidly Spreading in Iraq During the Last 30 Days," written June 10th 2009. Lee writes: "Before May of this year, Facebook didn’t report... Continue reading

China, as we know, has always tried and have been very successful in controlling and limiting its people. China has asked Google to help them out in controlling and limiting the search engine that the chinese people use. Google took the job because it was a big investment and the Chinese government was willing to pay pretty well. Google, last March, shut down its censorship in China because there were to many hackers trying to steal information from Google as well as other people. New York Times States: "Just over two months after threatening to leave China because of censorship... Continue reading

For many years now Google has controlled and monitored the censorship in China's internet. China made a deal with Google to set up a censored internet so that it will limit the people of China from visiting some sites as well as monitoring their internet useage. Google, last March, shut down its censorship in China because there were to many hackers trying to steal information from Google as well as other people. New York Times States: "Just over two months after threatening to leave China because of censorship and intrusions from hackers, Google on Monday closed its Internet search service... Continue reading

Voltaire once said: “Press works on the demolition of the old world so that it can establish a new one.” Most countries have understood the importance of the press, some all too well. Countries like Egypt understand the importance of the press, and therefore try to control it. There are many accounts and reports of the Egyptian government trying and even succeeding in trying to control the government. The Arab Press Network couldn’t have said it better about Egyptian Journalists. They state: “The Egyptian journalist - mainly of some private newspapers - has turned to produce the event rather than... Continue reading

In Egypt there is a continuing revolt that is going on against their president, Hosni Mubarak. This is following the revolt in that happened last month in Tunisia. The Egyption government has been taking actions to stop the revolution. These actions include shutting down the internet so that the people can't post things on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. Along with the internet they shut down cell phone service as well so no one can call out of the country. Now it seems the Egyption government seems to be attacking reporters. New York Times reports: ABC News reported... Continue reading