[Air-L] Egypt again - Google and others invent "Voice2Twitter" for Egypt

[Samater Liban (gmail)]

Hi!

Thought this might interest you:
On mashable:
http://mashable.com/2011/01/31/google-twitter-egypt-call-service/

>From mashable:
A group of engineers from Google, Twitter and SayNow (which Google acquired
last week) were hard at work building a speak-to-tweet service for
protesters in Egypt this weekend.

The service, which is already live, enables users to send tweets using a
voice connection. Anyone can tweet by leaving a voicemail on one of three
international phone numbers: +16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855.
Tweets sent using the service will automatically include the hashtag #egypt.
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I think the interesting part is, that tech companies have now actively
decided to build a workaround for a government issued ban on parts of
communication, which actually is a corporate action against a state - or
not? Who/what governs such actions by corporations?

Well - thought it may enrich your day - have a good one.

sam