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# …instead of plugging in the headphones, entering an Internet-induced fugue state and quietly giving in to hopelessness, they used the Internet to find one another and take to the streets to insist on fairness and (in the Arab world) freedom.
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- Published: 2011-12-14T19:18:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-22T19:21:35.000Z
- Author: Jane Susskind
- Tags: News

…instead of plugging in the headphones, entering an Internet-induced fugue state and quietly giving in to hopelessness, they used the Internet to find one another and take to the streets to insist on fairness and (in the Arab world) freedom.  
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