It is often true that when you have something important to say, then you say it, if somehow you are hindered, you use ingenuity and improvising to do so.

The ‘Facebook Youth’ attest to this fact.  This is a group of youth numbering about 64,000 linked to the opposition April 6 Movement, who have and are still using the internet, and are members of a facebook group opposed to  Hosni Mubarak’s government’s human rights and democratic track record.

Thirty members of the group were arrested on July 23 as they were demonstrating opposing Mubarak, arrests have continued till August 4 though most of them have not been formally charged.

Due to ISP connivance with the government most have been using internet cafes to access Facebook though, with new rules requiring the users to fill out their names, email addressess and phone addresses before the use the internet cafes they may now be in jeopardy.

According to Menasaat, many big internet cafes are already enforcing this rule.  The cafes have given out the lame excuse of trying ….”to decrease credit card and identity theft.”

Further to this a draft media bill has leaked to the Egyptian media, which if passed will have the president controlling all video and audio transmissions in Egypt, including the internet.  This will spell doom for Facebook activists, bloggers and website publishers as they will face legal repercussions.

Despite this the activists are undeterred, often checking and passing information to each other about internet cafes which do not enforce the rules, so that others can use them.