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Tu Mar 29 -

UNDERGROUND DISCOURSE -

*In this roiling political spring of protest and debate about democracy in repressive Arab countries, cell phone text messaging has become a powerful underground channel of free and often impolite speech, especially in the oil-rich Persian Gulf monarchies, where mobile phones are common but candid public talk about politics is not.

Demonstrators use text messaging to mobilize followers, dodge authorities and swarm quickly to protest sites...*

+ Good article by Steve Coll at the WaPo.

:: In the Gulf, Dissidence...

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