The title of this post may smack of another "conspiracy nut" posting. But then much has been made of the role of facebook and twitter have played in MENA state rebellions and little attention paid to how governments increasingly utilize the internet and Corporations to sell propaganda.The number of individuals that actually have access to the internet in many of the MENA states is proportionately small. Some of the reason for that is has been MENA state bureaucracies early failure to grasp the role the internet can play in the arena of social thought. They are quickly catching up though with the help of Western Corporate Technologies.
See U.S. Products Help Block Mideast Web from which we pulled the following: