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Internet Powers Tunisian Protests

   Lisa Bryant | Tunis  17 January 2011
   A  student-run  facebook  page  shows  an image depicting the Tunisian
   national flag smeared in red on a computer screen, 11 Jan 2011.

Photo: Reuters

   A  student-run  Facebook  page  shows  an image depicting the Tunisian
   national flag smeared in red on a computer screen, 11 Jan 2011.

   The  grassroots  demonstrations that ousted Tunisian strongman Zine el
   Abidine  Ben  Ali were fueled by a young, Internet-savvy generation of
   bloggers.  But  can  this so-called cybernet revolt be a model for the