There is another lineage for the Arab spring in hip-hop, the African-American music that's become a global medium for dissent and outrage; Tunisian hip-hop artist El Général was, along with Bouazizi, an instigator of the uprising, and other musicians played roles in articulating the outrage and inspiring the crowds.
Under that old canard of national security, the DoD is gathering the tools to contain domestic social unrest and the global resonance of dissent.
And it appears to only be getting more stringent as the global climate of social dissent worsens.
But what critics have derided as a "Muslim ban" has been met with global protests, lawsuits, and dissent from State Department employees.
But what critics have derided as a "Muslim ban" has been met with global protests, lawsuits, and dissent from State Department employees.
Critics of the teaching of evolution in the nation's classrooms are gaining ground in some states by linking the issue to global warming, arguing that dissenting views on both scientific subjects should be taught in public schools.
Targeted by terrorists, displaced by global competition, fractured by dissenting factions within, the United States seems once more perched on the edge of a precipice.
If Iranian teens are discussing French-kissing and mp3's, if activists have found a global distribution system for their dissent, why has the government allowed it?
And while the majority of this Google-appointed body aligned with Google's view that there should not be global delistings, there was one dissenting voice: German MP, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, who wrote then: "The internet is global, the protection of the user's rights must also be global.
