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have a right to freedom of expression and freedom of speech and that includes the use of the internet. what the concern is what is coming across is your, you are tempering your concern with . is there figure i could say that is more clear that the people of egypt should and have full access to social networking sites and the internet. the people of egypt should have their concerns about freedom of expression, assembly and association addressed directly by their government? i m not tempering one word or one syllable of a word in what has to be done by the people, by the government of egypt to address the concerns of the people of egypt.
addressed by the egyptian government immediately. and violence is not the response. a space has to be created for a meaningful dialogue that addressed, again, the very legitimate grievances. our right, our belief and their right on the freedom of expression of association and of assembly. we have, and i outlined specific things yesterday that the government must begin to do immediately. you say the legitimate grievances have to be addressed. or what? or what can the president do if they are not addressed? this is a situation that will be solved by the people in egypt. i will say this, that we, we are