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Welcome back. close to the top of the hour. if you're wondering what separates this uprising in egypt and ones in other countries from ones in the past the answer may be technology. >> social media especially have changed what it means to revolt as protesters tweet, update on facebook and upload images to youtube. josh lebs explains it all. >> what i want to do is pull back, stare at the globe and think about how technology has changed everything and changed what it is to have a revolt in our era. let's go to video as we talk it out. part of what happened is every government in the world saw i...

Josh looks at technology's global impact of what's happening in egypt. what i would like to do now is stare at the globe anded about how technology has changed everything. how technology has change what it is to have a revolt in our era. let's to go this video as we talk this out. part of what happened is every government in the world saw back in 2009 when there were protests in iran and iran tried to clamp out basically, all activity, all internet. and social media. some things still managed to squeak out. and those things that got out were amplified all over the world. that is, in a way, t...

Some things still manage to squeak out. those things that got out were amplified all over the world. that is in a way a lesson to every country in the world and what we have been seeing in egypt in recent days has some similarities. you have all these protests that have taken off. a lot that's different between egypt and iran. you have these protests on the street. you did have all of the sudden disappearance in a lot of ways of the ability to use the internet. that's where this chart comes in. i want to talk to you a little bit about it. we have this up right now for you at cnn.com in our tec...

All internet and social media, but some things still managed to squeak out. and those things that got out were amplified all over the world. that is in a way a lesson to every country in the world. what we have been seeing in egypt in recent days has some similarities. you know, you have all these protests that have taken off. there's a lot that's different between egypt and iran. but you have these protests on the streets and you did have all of a sudden a disappearance in a lot of ways of the ability to use the internet and that's where this chart comes in that we can zoom in on quickly. i w...