As events have unfolded Friday, flashed up usernames and faded. Twitter flickered with agitprop and trash talk. And Facebook surrounded past Gmail and Skype as Mr. Nakhle joined a coterie of Syrian exiles fomenting, reports and shape more remarkable, the greatest challenge to four decades of rule of Assad in Syria family.
"Can you hear it?". Mr. Nakhle cried, showing a video of the songs for the fall of the Government. "This is the Syria, man!" Unbelievable. ?
Unlike the revolts in Egypt, Tunisia and even Libya, which was broadcast in the world, the revolt of the Syria is distinguished by the power of a so-called vanguard abroad to transport the images and news which are lawless and illuminatingIf incomplete.
For weeks, the small number of activists, spanning the Middle East, Europe and the United States, were coordinated through almost every time zone and managed to spend the hundreds of satellite and mobile phones, modems, laptops and cameras in Syria. There, compatriots escape distance monitoring with software videos and upload by email on connections.
Their work has allowed what was once impossible.
In 1982, the Syria Government was able to hide, for once, his massacre of at least 10,000 people in Hama in a brutal suppression of an Islamist uprising. But Saturday, the world could witness, in almost in real time, the songs of anger and the cries of dead as security forces fired at the funeral for Friday dead.
Activists have staggered the Government of President Bashar al-Assad, forcing them to face the reality that he transferred almost entirely the story of the revolt to his opponents and abroad.
"Paranoid style of Government has become clear," said Joshua Landis, Professor of studies of the Middle East at the University of Oklahoma. "These militants have completely reversed the balance of power on the system, and this is all because of social media."
Still, although few question the extent of the uprising, differ on its depth in the cities. Cyberactivists outside the slogans of the mode of Syria of the unit for a revolt which the Government insists is inspired by the Islamists. The voices of protestors smuggled abroad have reduced to nil the sentiments of supporters of the President, which include the prosperous elite and minorities frightened Christians and unorthodox Muslim sects.
Mr. Nakhle, 28, is found in a local unlikely to conduct this competition. Impregnated young idealism, he left his hometown in 2006 in Damascus, where he discovered the Internet.
"A completely new world for me", he called and he quickly expanded his activism with campaigns Internet equivalent of the Syria of martial law to release the political prisoners and, more dramatically,. He came with a pseudonym, Malath Aumran - a joke based on the nicknames families inside - and had a picture of Twitter and Facebook which was a composite photograph of 32 men.
Last December, the secret police were pursuing him. "That is all they need - suspicion,"he says. ".
In a harrowing trip next month, smugglers on motorcycles led to the border, where he escaped the police and spent the night in a rocky Valley before making his way to a working-class district, here closely. Flanges are few. in a sparse flat, cigarettes, tea, Nescafe, sugar and boiled leaves of yerba maté drink crowd his coffee table.
"I am a cyberactivist," he said. "As long as I have Internet, that's all."
Ghent and with the eyes Bloodshot from blue-green, Mr. Nakhle navigated a cascade of information Friday - a frantic on Skype with 15 persons in Syria, an excerpt from video of Tartus, a phone call from a friend in Damascus and requests from journalists for contacts in the remote towns. Someone he believed to be a secret police officer flashed him a socii message: "There is news that a member of your family has been taken by the security services." Mr. Nakhle changed the sim card on his phone and called the House, without taking his eyes off the screen of his computer. The news proved to be false.
A message arrived in via Skype that a protest was dispersed in Aleppo.
"I will publish this one," he said knowingly.
Katherine Zoepf contributed reporting from New York and an employee of The New York Times of Damascus, Syria.
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