The British mobile phone multi-national has collaborated with the Mubarak regime by sending out millions of texts via its network to Egyptians calling for support for the regime and inciting violence against peaceful protestors. The messages have included this one "The Armed Forces asks Egypt's honest and loyal men to confront the traitors and criminals" which is sinister in the context of the violent killings and assaults of protestors seen in Egypt in the last few days.
Vodaphone claims it was "forced" to send the texts but this corporate collaboration with tyranny follows on with the co-operation of corporations such as Visa, Paypal and Amazon in the attempts to Wikileaks offline. On one side we have the people standing for liberty and the other we have governments and corporations - the battle lines have been drawn.
Related: Texts posted on Flickr -- Coverage on Zdnet -- Online petition against Vodaphone
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