Egypt Releases Google Executive, Company Says

His friends and family initially searched area hospitals for him, while human rights activists became convinced that he was being held by the government authorities for inspiring some of the young digital-savvy Egyptian political organizers to use technology, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, to help promote the protests on Jan. 25. For the last eight months, human rights advocates in Egypt have been able to build an online community of more than 470,000 people on the We are all Khaled Said Facebook page and thousands more on YouTube after they focused their social media efforts on police abuse and the case of Khaled Said, a 28-year-old Egyptian man who was beaten to death at the hands of police in Alexandria last June.

　グーグルのエグゼクティブが民主活動の象徴的なリーダーになっているのか。なんか凄い世界になってきたなぁ。「エジプト」と「グーグル」と「民主化運動」とが一つになっていくということに驚きを禁じえません。