Name: 【TED】Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian revolution (Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian revolution)
Uploaded: 2017-05-23T08:13:24.000Z
Duration: 10 min 8 s
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where everyone is collaborating on content,

you've built the largest encyclopedia in the world.

you have the largest encyclopedia in the world.

small or big. They contributed something --

to see all these Egyptians completely changing.

Egypt, for 30 years, had been in a downhill --

We only ranked high when it comes to poverty,

In fact, people were extremely frustrated.

is what I call the psychological barrier of fear.

Not everyone. There were actually a few brave Egyptians

that I have to thank for being so brave --

going into protests as a couple of hundred,

A dictator cannot live without the force.

Platforms like YouTube, Twitter, Facebook

because it basically gave us the impression that, "Wow, I'm not alone.

There are a lot of people who are frustrated."

There are lots of people who are frustrated.

There are lots of people who actually share the same dream.

There are lots of people who care about their freedom.

They probably have the best life in the world.

They are living in happiness. They are living in their villas.

They are happy. They don't have problems.

But they are still feeling the pain of the Egyptian.

helping these people to speak up their minds,

to collaborate together, to start thinking together.

I still remember every single detail of that photo.

But then what was the answer of the regime?

He's someone who escaped from all these bad things."

Because of the Internet, the truth prevailed

And everyone started to think that "this guy could be my brother."

was basically inviting people to join the page,

"What are we going to do?" "I don't know."

In a few days, tens of thousands of people there --