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107 more than 500 million people, 40 percent of its total population

Matt Silverman, ”China: The World's Largest Online Population,” Mashable, April 10, 2012; Jon Russell, ”Internet Usage in China Surges 11%,” USA Today, July 19, 2012.

108 to take to the Internet themselves in order to respond to public controversies

Lye Liang f.o.o.k and Yang Yi, EAI Background Brief No. 467, ”The Chinese Leaders.h.i.+p and the Internet,” July 27, 2009, /en/c154/484098.html.

110 four out of every ten Tunisians were connected to the Internet

Zahera Harb, ”Arab Revolutions and the Social Media Effect,” M/C Journal [Media/Culture Journal] 14, no. 2 (2011).

111 with almost 20 percent of them on Facebook

Ibid.

112 80 percent of the Facebook users were under the age of thirty

Ibid.

113 as censoring political dissent on the Internet

Reporters without Borders, ”Enemies of the Internet,” March 12, 2010, en.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/Internet_enemies.pdf.

114 It was the downloaded video that ignited the Arab Spring

John D. Sutter, ”How Smartphones Make Us Superhuman,” CNN, September 10, 2012.

115 In Saudi Arabia, Twitter has facilitated public criticism

Robert F. Worth, ”Twitter Gives Saudi Arabia a Revolution of Its Own,” New York Times, October 20, 2012.