Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-01-26]: In Cairo the riots continued, the country is still disconnected from the Internet and the police can not work. Anything new we learn about what is happening in the country we learn through the media of the West, that have proved that they are far from "objective" during the last years... Internet sites state that "more than 100 people have been reported dead from riots". I do not know Egypt and I have not lived in Egypt. What does "100" mean in a country where 18,000,000 people live only in one of its cities? How objective or directed is the information from the Internet at such critical moments? Saddam was also declared as "evil". When he was finally removed from power, Iraq was dissolved into bits and pieces... Who decides what is good for one state? The state itself, 100 people, thousands of people, some Internet pages or the U.S.?
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