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The protesters in Tahrir Square perceived the cause of Egypt’s poverty in its non-responsive, repressive political system, its corrupt government, and the general lack of equality of opportunity in every sphere of their lives.

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Individuals have managed to overcome the repressive restrictions in those regimes by recording their environment and telling their own stories on the internet.

But if you're a repressive government searching for political enemies, you might instead remove them, eliminate them, disrupt their social group, and those who remain behind lose social cohesion and organization.

To do so, she had to elude every big institution in her life: repressive governments, occupying armies and even armed border patrols.

Most of the globe experiences the state as repressive, as an organization that is concerned about denial of rights, about denial of justice, rather than provision of it.

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