If we look at young freedom fighters battling vicious tyrannies today in the streets of Tehran, Damascus, Benghazi, and elsewhere, we find one big thing they all have in common: they all use online networking sites to organise their protests and rebellions. The activists are using Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube to spread the word and rally support.
It is not just in the Middle East. In China, mostly young 'netizens' use the web for social protests. In the Former Soviet Union, activists of youth opposition groups like 'Oborona' ('Defense'), in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, use the site Vkontakte.ru, the Russian-language answer to Facebook, to recruit followers and to organize rallies, protests, and demonstrations.
The Internet, and social networks, are changing our planet. They are helping people fight for their rights, for justice, and freedom.
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