When clips of the film The Innocence of Muslims hit the internet, there was pressure on Muslim countries to do something about it.. In Egypt, various censorship ideas did not get off the ground due to impossibility, impracticality, cost or illegality. The government could not force sites hosting content from the film to take it down, and could not ban Youtube either. But then they hit on something else: censorship through crowdsourcing.
EGYPT: CROWDSOURCING AS A FORCE OF CENSORSHIP
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