Comments on: Learning from Egypt’s Internet and Cellphone Shutdown http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/2012/01/30/learning-from-egypts-internet-and-cellphone-shutdown/ Human Rights First builds respect for human rights and the rule of law to help ensure the dignity to which everyone is entitled and to stem intolerance, tyranny, and violence. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: eslaporte http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/2012/01/30/learning-from-egypts-internet-and-cellphone-shutdown/#comment-94611 eslaporte Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:26:55 +0000 http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/?p=16948#comment-94611 I'd like to know when all this concern for bloggers and "net activists" in other parts of the world will also be for me - a blogger since 2006 - that is critical of American, European and Dutch governmental policies and actions?! That's fine to show concern for people in place like China, Iran- but does internet activity by Americans also land Americans on watchlists also? Yes - it does! I am a bit sick and tired of concern for bloggers in other parts of the world, but no concern is shown for those of us here in the US and Europe for the spying and watchlists against us too. I intend to travel next summer - and getting on the airplane had better not be hard to do. Wouldn't this be called a "freedom of movement restriction" in another part of the world? Nope - not in the US. It's "security." I’d like to know when all this concern for bloggers and “net activists” in other parts of the world will also be for me – a blogger since 2006 – that is critical of American, European and Dutch governmental policies and actions?!

That’s fine to show concern for people in place like China, Iran- but does internet activity by Americans also land Americans on watchlists also? Yes – it does!

I am a bit sick and tired of concern for bloggers in other parts of the world, but no concern is shown for those of us here in the US and Europe for the spying and watchlists against us too.

I intend to travel next summer – and getting on the airplane had better not be hard to do. Wouldn’t this be called a “freedom of movement restriction” in another part of the world? Nope – not in the US. It’s “security.”

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