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Let's try to deconstruct an oxymoron here: So all these protests are happening because Iraq is blocking a multi million dollar company? Right?

I know it is bad, but there are alternatives and we as people living on this planet should not narrow ourselves down to only one channel of communication that is operating on one channel that is internet.*

And let's face it: because it is so easy to use facebook, people are getting lazy and numb, more and more dumb and numb people scrolling through other peoples shit, they don't try to figure out a more complex system where at the end frees the individual from a controlling state.

Just wake up already.

* Not to mention the fact that facebook reads your messages and all your shit so it can feed you some more shit.



Stop reading just the headlines. They are protesting against poor government performance, corruption, and all of this stuff. Iraqi government shuts down the internet as they want, in this case, possibly, to stop the protesters from organising.




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