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• EGYPT’S LGBTS FIGHT GRDR CRACKDOWN BAD OLD DAYSAN AMERIN SURVEILLANCE PANY PROVIS THE SYSTEMS ED TO MONOR AND ENTRAP EGYPT’S SEXUAL MORI. JAY MICHAELSONUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 2:38PM EDT / PUBLISHED OCT. 18, 2014 6:45AM EDT GRDREGYPT MAY BE THE WORST PLACE THE WORLD TO BE GAY RIGHT NOW—AND TECHNOLOGY IS A PRIMARY REASON.AS FIRST REPORTED BUZZFEED, THE ERNMENT OF EGYPT HAS ADMTED—BOASTED, REALLY—THAT IS MONORG FACEBOOK, TWTER, AND SKYPE FOR ANY SIGNS OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY. THERE ARE MORS THAT THE HOOKUP SE GRDR IS BEG WATCHED AS WELL—PROMPTG GRDR TO ISSUE POP-UP WARNGS ENGLISH AND ARABIC TO ERS LOGGG OM EGYPT.THE NSEQUENC N BE VASTATG. LAST MONTH, SIX GAY MEN WERE SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS OF HARD LABOR WHEN THEIR APARTMENT WAS RAID. AUTHORI LOTED BASED ON A FACEBOOK PAGE.THOSE SAME SIX MEN WERE ALSO AMONG THE EIGHT ARRTED WHEN A VIO OF A GAY “WEDDG” WENT VIRAL (FENDANTS NY THE CEREMONY WAS REAL). AS IRAN—WHERE WOMEN DANCG TO PHARRELL WILLIAMS’ “HAPPY” WERE SENTENCED TO 91 LASH—THE NSEQUENC OF A VIRAL VIO N OFTEN BE SEVERE. ACRDG TO HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST, EGYPTIAN POLICE HAVE ARRTED OVER EIGHTY PEOPLE FOR THE “CRIME” OF BEG LGBT THE LAST YEAR ALONE.APPROPRIATELY ENOUGH, THE RPONSE TO EGYPT’S DIGAL CRACKDOWN HAS, SELF, TAKEN PLACE LARGELY ON SOCIAL MEDIA, WHICH LGBT PEOPLE AND ALLI ARE G TO BRG ATTENTN TO THE CRACKDOWN. THE HASHTAG #STOPJAILGGAYS (#ضد_حبس_المثليين), FOR EXAMPLE, WAS THE CENTER OF A TWO-DAY “TWTER STORM” ON SEPT. 24-25. AND ACTIVISTS HAVE ED THE SEMI-ANONYMY OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO LASH OUT AGAST THE ERNMENT.NEXT UP: ON OCT. 18, EGYPTIAN ACTIVISTS NNECTED TO THE “SOLIDARY WH EGYPT LGBT” FACEBOOK PAGE ARE LLG FOR IRL PROTTS ONT OF EGYPTIAN EMBASSI AROUND THE WORLD.INTERTGLY, ACTIVISTS ARE ALSO TARGETG THE PROVIRS OF THE SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY BEG ED TO SPY ON THEM: SEE (SYSTEMS ENGEERG OF EGYPT) AND THE MANUFACTURER OF THE SYSTEMS ALLEGEDLY RELLS, THE US-BASED BLUE COAT SYSTEMS.HERE’S WHERE GETS PLITED. IN RPONSE TO THE PROTT ACTN, AND AN EXPOSE BUZZFEED, BLUE COAT ISSUED A STATEMENT DISCLAIMG RPONSIBILY. “SEE EGYPT IS A BLUE COAT RELLER,” THE STATEMENT ADMTED, “BUT IS NOT OTHERWISE AFFILIATED WH BLUE COAT. SEE EGYPT HAS ASSURED THAT THEY HAVE NOT BID OR ROLD BLUE COAT PRODUCTS TO THE EGYPTIAN ERNMENT FOR ANY SOCIAL WORK MONORG OPERATN.”READ BETWEEN THE L, AND ’S EASIER TO NNECT THE DOTS. BLUE COAT MAK NASTY ANTI-PRIVACY SOFTWARE. SMALL-TIME RELLERS LIKE SEE HAND TO BAD GUYS. BLUE COAT NI RPONSIBILY.BLUE COAT’S STATEMENT ALSO SAYS THAT, “WE REQUIRE OUR RELLERS TO ADHERE TO THE SAME LEGAL REQUIREMENTS AND ETHIL STANDARDS TO WHICH WE HOLD OURSELV.” WELL, IF THAT’S THE SE, WHY NTUE TO LICENSE SEE AS A RELLER? IF THEY’RE BREACH OF BLUE COAT’S “ETHIL STANDARDS,” THEN WHY HASN’T BLUE COAT DROPPED THEM?MAYBE BEE BLUE COAT SELF IS A LTLE SHADY. THE PANY WAS CLUD REPORTERS WHOUT BORRS’ 2013 LIST OF “RPORATE ENEMI OF THE INTER.” THEIR SYSTEMS HAVE BEEN ED SYRIA TO SPY ON DISSINTS. AND EVEN IF SEE HAS EXAGGERATED THE PABILI OF BLUE COAT’S TOOLS (SECURY EXPERTS SAY THEY HAVE), REPRSIVE REGIM SEEM TO BE A BLUE COAT CTOMER BASE.IN THIS REGARD, EGYPTIAN ACTIVISTS’ CHOICE TO TARGET BLUE COAT MAK A LOT OF SENSE. AS SISTER AND WELL-ROURCED AS IS, MAY BE THE WEAKT LK THE CHA.IT’S ALSO HARD NOT TO SEE, THIS MPAIGN, AN ECHO OF THE PALTIAN BOYTT, DIVTMENT, AND SANCTNS (BDS) MOVEMENT. BDS PROTTERS HAVE SGLED OUT CATERPILLAR, WHICH SELLS BULLDOZERS AND OTHER EQUIPMENT ED TO BUILD ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS, WH SOME SUCCS: CATERPILLAR IS ARGUABLY THE RPORATE FACE OF THE ISRAELI OCCUPATN, SPE THE RATHER TENUO NNECTN TO . LIKEWISE, BLUE COAT ULD BEE THE RPORATE FACE OF THE EGYPTIAN ANTI-LGBT CRACKDOWN—OR PERHAPS OF PRIVACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS FENRS WORLDWI.NOTICE, TOO, THE RECURRG PATTERN OF CRACKDOWNS LIKE THIS. THE ARY-LED ERNMENT HAS BEEN CRACKG DOWN ON EVERYONE: THE MLIM BROTHERHOOD, LIBERAL STUNT ACTIVISTS, BUT ALSO HUMAN RIGHTS FENRS. HERE, AS RSIA, LGBT=HUMAN RIGHTS=ANTI-THORARIAN=THREAT.AND, AS UNTLS OTHER UNTRI (UGANDA, KYRGYZSTAN, NIGERIA), LGBT PEOPLE ARE A NVENIENT SPEGOAT. FOC ON THE GAYS—NOT ON THE ENOMY, THE EROSN OF CIVIL SOCIETY, OR THE LACK OF MOCRACY. DRAWG ON NSERVATIVE RELIG SENTIMENTS— EGYPT, ’S MLIM VALU; ELSEWHERE, CHRISTIAN OR HDU—THORARIAN REGIM E LGBT PEOPLE TO “WAG THE DOG” AWAY OM SUBSTANTIVE ISSU AND TOWARD FICTIVE ON. AND THEY GET TO LOOK P THE PROCS.SOUND FAIAR? IT SHOULD. THE SAME STRATEGY WAS ED BY REPUBLINS 2004.EGYPT’S LERS HAVE BEEN PARTICULARLY OD, HOWEVER. WELL BEFORE THE CURRENT CRISIS, THE MUBARAK ERNMENT’S “VICE SQUADS” (THAT IS LERALLY WHAT THEY ARE LLED) HAD SQUELCHED GAY LIFE CAIRO, MOST NOTABLY THE 2001 “QUEEN BOAT” SE, WHICH FIFTY PARTIERS AT A FLOATG DIS WERE PICTED, ACRDG TO A HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH REPORT AS “PARTICIPATG A BLASPHEMO NSPIRACY.” IN HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH’S WORDS, STATE-SPONSORED MEDIA PICTED GAYS AS “A MENACE TO PUBLIC SAFETY, THE OF A CULT ERODG MORAL VALU, A SUBVERSIVE WORK THREATENG STATE SECURY.”SO A SENSE, THE CURRENT WAVE OF PERSECUTN IS NOTHG NEW.IT IS, HOWEVER, MORE THAN A LTLE IRONIC. EGYPT ACTUALLY HAS NO LAW BANNG HOMOSEXUAL NDUCT—GAYS ARE GENERALLY CHARGED WH “BCHERY,” (FUJUR) WHICH IS SO VAGUE AS TO MAKE NVICTNS EXCEEDGLY EASY TO OBTA. AMERIN ATTENTN IS OFTEN FOCED ON LEGAL REGIM—DENMARK GOOD, UGANDA BAD—BUT THE WRTEN LAW IS ONLY A SMALL PART OF THE STORY.EGYPT’S CRACKDOWN IS ALSO IRONIC BEE THE UNED STAT HAS AMBIVALENTLY SUPPORTED THE CURRENT REGIME, AND UNABASHEDLY SUPPORTED MUBARAK FOR YEARS. UNLIKE, SAY, RSIA, WHERE ANTI-GAY EQUALS ANTI-AMERIN, EGYPT’S REGIME WOULD BE HARD-PRSED TO NMN THE AMERIN TERLOPERS.NONE OF THIS MATTERS, OF URSE, TO EGYPT’S LGBT POPULATN, WHICH IS PERSECUTED BY STATE, RELIGN, AND FAY ALIKE. THE CRACKDOWN AGAST GAYS, AND ALSO AGAST SEX WORKERS AND, WA FOR , ATHEISTS HAS GIVEN THE OLD/NEW REGIME SOME MUCH-NEED CREDIBILY. IT SHOWS NO SIGN OF ABATG.THEN AGA, THIS IS THE SAME EGYPT WHICH PRO-MOCRACY ACTIVISTS G SOCIAL MEDIA DROVE THOANDS OF PEOPLE TO TAHRIR SQUARE 2011. THE REGIME HAS NOW TURNED THAT TECHNOLOGY AGAST THEM. CAN ACTIVISTS TAKE BACK?#STAYTUNED. JAY MICHAELSON

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EGYPT’S LGBTS FIGHT GRDR CRACKDOWN BAD OLD DAYSAN AMERIN SURVEILLANCE PANY PROVIS THE SYSTEMS ED TO MONOR AND ENTRAP EGYPT’S SEXUAL MORI. JAY MICHAELSONUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 2:38PM EDT / PUBLISHED OCT. 18, 2014 6:45AM EDT GRDREGYPT MAY BE THE WORST PLACE THE WORLD TO BE GAY RIGHT NOW—AND TECHNOLOGY IS A PRIMARY REASON.AS FIRST REPORTED BUZZFEED, THE ERNMENT OF EGYPT HAS ADMTED—BOASTED, REALLY—THAT IS MONORG FACEBOOK, TWTER, AND SKYPE FOR ANY SIGNS OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY. THERE ARE MORS THAT THE HOOKUP SE GRDR IS BEG WATCHED AS WELL—PROMPTG GRDR TO ISSUE POP-UP WARNGS ENGLISH AND ARABIC TO ERS LOGGG OM EGYPT.THE NSEQUENC N BE VASTATG. LAST MONTH, SIX GAY MEN WERE SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS OF HARD LABOR WHEN THEIR APARTMENT WAS RAID. AUTHORI LOTED BASED ON A FACEBOOK PAGE.THOSE SAME SIX MEN WERE ALSO AMONG THE EIGHT ARRTED WHEN A VIO OF A GAY “WEDDG” WENT VIRAL (FENDANTS NY THE CEREMONY WAS REAL). AS IRAN—WHERE WOMEN DANCG TO PHARRELL WILLIAMS’ “HAPPY” WERE SENTENCED TO 91 LASH—THE NSEQUENC OF A VIRAL VIO N OFTEN BE SEVERE. ACRDG TO HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST, EGYPTIAN POLICE HAVE ARRTED OVER EIGHTY PEOPLE FOR THE “CRIME” OF BEG LGBT THE LAST YEAR ALONE.APPROPRIATELY ENOUGH, THE RPONSE TO EGYPT’S DIGAL CRACKDOWN HAS, SELF, TAKEN PLACE LARGELY ON SOCIAL MEDIA, WHICH LGBT PEOPLE AND ALLI ARE G TO BRG ATTENTN TO THE CRACKDOWN. THE HASHTAG #STOPJAILGGAYS (#ضد_حبس_المثليين), FOR EXAMPLE, WAS THE CENTER OF A TWO-DAY “TWTER STORM” ON SEPT. 24-25. AND ACTIVISTS HAVE ED THE SEMI-ANONYMY OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO LASH OUT AGAST THE ERNMENT.NEXT UP: ON OCT. 18, EGYPTIAN ACTIVISTS NNECTED TO THE “SOLIDARY WH EGYPT LGBT” FACEBOOK PAGE ARE LLG FOR IRL PROTTS ONT OF EGYPTIAN EMBASSI AROUND THE WORLD.INTERTGLY, ACTIVISTS ARE ALSO TARGETG THE PROVIRS OF THE SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY BEG ED TO SPY ON THEM: SEE (SYSTEMS ENGEERG OF EGYPT) AND THE MANUFACTURER OF THE SYSTEMS ALLEGEDLY RELLS, THE US-BASED BLUE COAT SYSTEMS.HERE’S WHERE GETS PLITED. IN RPONSE TO THE PROTT ACTN, AND AN EXPOSE BUZZFEED, BLUE COAT ISSUED A STATEMENT DISCLAIMG RPONSIBILY. “SEE EGYPT IS A BLUE COAT RELLER,” THE STATEMENT ADMTED, “BUT IS NOT OTHERWISE AFFILIATED WH BLUE COAT. SEE EGYPT HAS ASSURED THAT THEY HAVE NOT BID OR ROLD BLUE COAT PRODUCTS TO THE EGYPTIAN ERNMENT FOR ANY SOCIAL WORK MONORG OPERATN.”READ BETWEEN THE L, AND ’S EASIER TO NNECT THE DOTS. BLUE COAT MAK NASTY ANTI-PRIVACY SOFTWARE. SMALL-TIME RELLERS LIKE SEE HAND TO BAD GUYS. BLUE COAT NI RPONSIBILY.BLUE COAT’S STATEMENT ALSO SAYS THAT, “WE REQUIRE OUR RELLERS TO ADHERE TO THE SAME LEGAL REQUIREMENTS AND ETHIL STANDARDS TO WHICH WE HOLD OURSELV.” WELL, IF THAT’S THE SE, WHY NTUE TO LICENSE SEE AS A RELLER? IF THEY’RE BREACH OF BLUE COAT’S “ETHIL STANDARDS,” THEN WHY HASN’T BLUE COAT DROPPED THEM?MAYBE BEE BLUE COAT SELF IS A LTLE SHADY. THE PANY WAS CLUD REPORTERS WHOUT BORRS’ 2013 LIST OF “RPORATE ENEMI OF THE INTER.” THEIR SYSTEMS HAVE BEEN ED SYRIA TO SPY ON DISSINTS. AND EVEN IF SEE HAS EXAGGERATED THE PABILI OF BLUE COAT’S TOOLS (SECURY EXPERTS SAY THEY HAVE), REPRSIVE REGIM SEEM TO BE A BLUE COAT CTOMER BASE.IN THIS REGARD, EGYPTIAN ACTIVISTS’ CHOICE TO TARGET BLUE COAT MAK A LOT OF SENSE. AS SISTER AND WELL-ROURCED AS IS, MAY BE THE WEAKT LK THE CHA.IT’S ALSO HARD NOT TO SEE, THIS MPAIGN, AN ECHO OF THE PALTIAN BOYTT, DIVTMENT, AND SANCTNS (BDS) MOVEMENT. BDS PROTTERS HAVE SGLED OUT CATERPILLAR, WHICH SELLS BULLDOZERS AND OTHER EQUIPMENT ED TO BUILD ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS, WH SOME SUCCS: CATERPILLAR IS ARGUABLY THE RPORATE FACE OF THE ISRAELI OCCUPATN, SPE THE RATHER TENUO NNECTN TO . LIKEWISE, BLUE COAT ULD BEE THE RPORATE FACE OF THE EGYPTIAN ANTI-LGBT CRACKDOWN—OR PERHAPS OF PRIVACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS FENRS WORLDWI.NOTICE, TOO, THE RECURRG PATTERN OF CRACKDOWNS LIKE THIS. THE ARY-LED ERNMENT HAS BEEN CRACKG DOWN ON EVERYONE: THE MLIM BROTHERHOOD, LIBERAL STUNT ACTIVISTS, BUT ALSO HUMAN RIGHTS FENRS. HERE, AS RSIA, LGBT=HUMAN RIGHTS=ANTI-THORARIAN=THREAT.AND, AS UNTLS OTHER UNTRI (UGANDA, KYRGYZSTAN, NIGERIA), LGBT PEOPLE ARE A NVENIENT SPEGOAT. FOC ON THE GAYS—NOT ON THE ENOMY, THE EROSN OF CIVIL SOCIETY, OR THE LACK OF MOCRACY. DRAWG ON NSERVATIVE RELIG SENTIMENTS— EGYPT, ’S MLIM VALU; ELSEWHERE, CHRISTIAN OR HDU—THORARIAN REGIM E LGBT PEOPLE TO “WAG THE DOG” AWAY OM SUBSTANTIVE ISSU AND TOWARD FICTIVE ON. AND THEY GET TO LOOK P THE PROCS.SOUND FAIAR? IT SHOULD. THE SAME STRATEGY WAS ED BY REPUBLINS 2004.EGYPT’S LERS HAVE BEEN PARTICULARLY OD, HOWEVER. WELL BEFORE THE CURRENT CRISIS, THE MUBARAK ERNMENT’S “VICE SQUADS” (THAT IS LERALLY WHAT THEY ARE LLED) HAD SQUELCHED GAY LIFE CAIRO, MOST NOTABLY THE 2001 “QUEEN BOAT” SE, WHICH FIFTY PARTIERS AT A FLOATG DIS WERE PICTED, ACRDG TO A HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH REPORT AS “PARTICIPATG A BLASPHEMO NSPIRACY.” IN HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH’S WORDS, STATE-SPONSORED MEDIA PICTED GAYS AS “A MENACE TO PUBLIC SAFETY, THE OF A CULT ERODG MORAL VALU, A SUBVERSIVE WORK THREATENG STATE SECURY.”SO A SENSE, THE CURRENT WAVE OF PERSECUTN IS NOTHG NEW.IT IS, HOWEVER, MORE THAN A LTLE IRONIC. EGYPT ACTUALLY HAS NO LAW BANNG HOMOSEXUAL NDUCT—GAYS ARE GENERALLY CHARGED WH “BCHERY,” (FUJUR) WHICH IS SO VAGUE AS TO MAKE NVICTNS EXCEEDGLY EASY TO OBTA. AMERIN ATTENTN IS OFTEN FOCED ON LEGAL REGIM—DENMARK GOOD, UGANDA BAD—BUT THE WRTEN LAW IS ONLY A SMALL PART OF THE STORY.EGYPT’S CRACKDOWN IS ALSO IRONIC BEE THE UNED STAT HAS AMBIVALENTLY SUPPORTED THE CURRENT REGIME, AND UNABASHEDLY SUPPORTED MUBARAK FOR YEARS. UNLIKE, SAY, RSIA, WHERE ANTI-GAY EQUALS ANTI-AMERIN, EGYPT’S REGIME WOULD BE HARD-PRSED TO NMN THE AMERIN TERLOPERS.NONE OF THIS MATTERS, OF URSE, TO EGYPT’S LGBT POPULATN, WHICH IS PERSECUTED BY STATE, RELIGN, AND FAY ALIKE. THE CRACKDOWN AGAST GAYS, AND ALSO AGAST SEX WORKERS AND, WA FOR , ATHEISTS HAS GIVEN THE OLD/NEW REGIME SOME MUCH-NEED CREDIBILY. IT SHOWS NO SIGN OF ABATG.THEN AGA, THIS IS THE SAME EGYPT WHICH PRO-MOCRACY ACTIVISTS G SOCIAL MEDIA DROVE THOANDS OF PEOPLE TO TAHRIR SQUARE 2011. THE REGIME HAS NOW TURNED THAT TECHNOLOGY AGAST THEM. CAN ACTIVISTS TAKE BACK?#STAYTUNED. JAY MICHAELSON

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