Arab Nations are about to Sink

The Arab Spring is a revolutionary act of protest and wars against Arab governments. A lot of protests happened in countries like Sudan, Iraq and Algeria. A lot of things caused these protests including, government corruptions, poverty, unemployment, a bad economy and human violations. Citizens didn't have another choice besides fighting for their freedom. They were deprived of freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of communicating to each other and freedom of fighting for what they believe. The government blocked many websites including Twitter and Facebook so that people won’t be able to communicate to each other and so that the protests can be stopped easily.

In general, when we are talking about a government against its people, technology played a negative role in the uprising of the Arab Spring because many citizens used it to plan wars against their OWN government. They also used technology to set up meetings and organize themselves for massive strikes. Also, the government did a bad job in censoring these websites because it triggered people to believe that the government is even planning to take away more of their freedoms. This caused people to have more eager to protest and overthrow the government. The government responded to these protest with violence and killings. It ordered the police to kill everyone who tries to protest and stops the police from doing their job.

On the other hand, if we are talking about a totalitarian or dictatorship government that abridges the freedom of its people, technology played a positive role in the uprising of the Arab Spring. The technology played a positive role for the benefit of the citizens because they got the chance to spread what was happening in their country to other countries. This act of using technology was a great idea because when other countries see what is happening in their country, they will start doing something about it or at least call for help.

To be realistic, I don’t think these governments did effective jobs in monitoring these citizens because if they done a great job, their citizens wouldn't have even protested. I think these governments did a bad job in monitoring their citizens to keep stability and they made the stability to lean towards destruction. For example, the president of Egypt, Mubarak didn't do a great job in the development of the country. He didn't boost the economy but instead made it even worst due to the massive number of unemployed workers in the country. “Egypt has had a massive income gap throughout Mubarak’s control, which is clearly the root cause of the original uprising. One half of Egyptians live on $2/day or less.”


Bibliography
Jamoul, Hamze Abbas. The Arab Spring: The Root Causes. 2 20, 2012. http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?fromval=1&cid=31&frid=31&eid=45439 (accessed 12 16, 2012).