Syria Restores Access to Facebook and YouTube

The Syrian government began allowing its citizens Wednesday to openly use Facebook and YouTube, three years after blocking access to Facebook and other sites as part of a crackdown on political activism. Human rights advocates greeted the news guardedly, warning that the government might have lifted the ban to more closely monitor people and activity on social networking sites.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/world/middleeast/10syria.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha22

You could always argue that monitored access is better than no access at all. Whether that's true is debatable though.

Lime Flavoured wrote:You could always argue that monitored access is better than no access at all. Whether that's true is debatable though.

I don't know. Security of communications is critical, would coded messages work?

I'd love to see Syria follow Egypt's lead.

coded communications would work well as long as you can be relatively discreet about it. Obviously coded messages would be a huge red flag.