A message from China and Egypt

Chinese film director Hu Ge has posted a satirical film about the life as an internet user in China. It's cleverly done as a spoof wildlife documentary in which internet users are animals in captivity with keepers.

If you don't speak Chinese you can still get a lot from this film by following the action however, Robert Woo at Global Voices has a partial transcript and translation here.

Meanhwile in Egypt Sandmonkey has an update on the Muslim activists who travelled to Nag Hamady to console the Christian victims of the massacre there on the Coptic New Year 6th January. The activists were prevented by the authorities from meeting the victims' families.

"Having muslims consoling the families of Christian victims of muslim hate-crimes, well, that's just too much of a risk apparently. It might lessen the hate or something, and we can't have that."

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