YouTube & Flickr Offer On-the-Ground Look at Protests in Egypt

Since Internet access was restored Wednesday in Egypt, witnesses of the growing violence throughout the country have been able to share their photos and videos without using a work around.

Internet access in the country had been restricted after the government pressured Internet service providers to block Twitter, then Facebook, and then the entire Internet in response to protests against the presidency of Hosni Mubarak.

Before the Internet block was removed, people were using third-party apps and proxy servers to bypass these blocks, and grassroots communication about the protests continued on social networks like YouTube and Flickr.

New images of the protests have continued to flood into both of these networks now that Internet access has been restored. About 4,000 uploads are currently categorized under the Jan 25 Flickr tag, and YouTube has been working with real-time curation site Storyful to collect uploaded video of the protests in its Citizentube channel.

We’ve gathered a collection of the images from each of these channels, and you can view them in the galleries below.

Photos courtesy of Mahmoud Saber, Monasosh, Mashahed, Kodak Agfa

View As Slideshow » ???? ????? ?? ???? ?????????? ?????? ????? ????? ??????? Protest in Egypt - Jan 25, 2011Peaceful protest of few hundreds Egyptians on one of the main streets in Cairo in Jan 25, 2011 (Egyptian national holiday - Police day) Demonstrators gather in Tahrir Square ahead of million man marchCairo, Egypt: Demonstrators gather in Tahrir Square ahead of Tuesday's planned "Million Man March" against President Mubarak. (January 31, 2011) Things Mubarak Thugs are throwing on peaceful protestors in Tahrir SquareWe've been there for 1 week. Not one single injury, not one single person harmed. Now, the mubarak thugs are throwing this on protestors. For 50 Egyptian Pounds per person!!!!

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