Part 39 (1/2)

124 actually represented a tiny fraction of Egypt's huge population

Noah Shachtman, ”How Many People Are in Tahrir Square? Here's How to Tell,” Wired Danger Room blog, February 1, 2011, /dangerroom/2011/02/how-many-people-are-in-tahrir-square-heres-how-to-tell/.

125 new political consensus around what kind of government

David D. Kirkpatrick, ”Named Egypt's Winner, Islamist Makes History,” New York Times, June 25, 2012.

126 from those advocated by most of the Internet-inspired reformers

Ibid.

127 when the Ottoman Empire banned the printing press

Fatmagul Demirel, Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Gabor Agoston and Bruce Masters (New York: Facts on File, 2009), p. 130.

128 they had deprived themselves of the fruits of the Print Revolution

Ishtiaq Hussain, ”The Tanzimat: Secular Reforms in the Ottoman Empire,” Faith Matters, February 5, 2011, faith-matters.org/images/stories/fm-publications/the-tanzimat-final-web.pdf.

129 depending on how they are used and who uses them to greatest effect

Evgeny Morozov, ”The Dark Side of Internet for Egyptian and Tunisian Protesters,” Globe and Mail, January 28, 2011; Louis Klaveras, ”The Coming Twivolutions? Social Media in the Recent Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt,” Huffington Post, January 31, 2011, /louis-klarevas/post_1647_b_815749.html.

130 have even experimented with Internet voting in elections and referenda

Sutton Meagher, ”Comment: When Personal Computers Are Transformed into Ballot Boxes: How Internet Elections in Estonia Comply with the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,” American University International Law Review 23 (2008).

131 proposals placed by citizens on a government website

Freedom House-Latvia, 2012, /report/nations-transit/2012/latvia.

132 achieve higher levels of quality in the services they deliver