Gamal Ibrahim, an Egyptian citizen, has named his newborn daughter “Facebook,” following the social media’s part in bringing about the recent revolution.
Ibrahim says he gave his daughter the name “to express his joy at the achievements made by the January 25 youth.”
Many of the youths in the nation used Facebook, Twitter and other social media networks to organize the protests, which began on January 25th and eventually led to the end of President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year reign.
“The girl’s family, friends and neighbors in the Ibrahimya region gathered around the new born to express their continuing support for the revolution that started on Facebook. ‘Facebook’ received many gifts from the youth who were overjoyed by her arrival and the new name,” adds the Egyptian paper who broke the story.
Result for: protests
YouTube launched in May 2005 with a specific goal; to make it possible for users to easily upload and share videos with each other. The type of content wasn’t particularly important, as long as the process was easy for the uploader and the viewer. Not long after it launched, YouTube built a multi-million community of users and became a well known brand.
The site now exceeds over two billion views daily, which it points out is double the prime-time audience of all three major U.S. television networks combined. It has hosted all kinds of video content from homemade videos to coverage of social unrest, such as the Iranian election protests in 2009 that showed the power of social media to spread information. The website is currently blocked in China.
More than 24 hours of video footage is currently uploaded to YouTube every single minute.
YouTube has launched the YouTube FiveYear Channel, which includes the “My YouTube Story” project where users from all over the world describe how YouTube affected their lives. Users can submit videos here, and they may be selected for the My YouTube Story project.
Result for: protests
The Australian government has said today that new technology could be used to filter all P2P traffic.
Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy added, “Technology that filters peer-to-peer and BitTorrent traffic does exist and it is anticipated that the effectiveness of this will be tested in the live pilot trial.”
The controversial censorship plan was originally believed to be for restricting certain Web traffic and internationally-hosted content that did not fall under Australian regulation.
On the Digital Economy Future Directions blog launched by Conroy earlier this month, the replies to the plan are very critical.
“I’m aware that this proposal has attracted significant debate and criticism – on this blog and at other places in the blogosphere,” Senator Conroy noted.
The filtering proposal as a whole has made headlines since its first appearance and there were even protests around Australia earlier this month.
Please read the full blog post here:
Minister Conroy on: Promoting a civil and confident society online
There are over 300 comments already, with a solid majority being very critical of the plan.
