I've never been a fan of the US setting moral policies for the rest of the world but that is ridiculous.
"The United Nations recently found Zimbabweans to be among the world’s poorest people, often making mere survival an all-consuming task. They also have less access to the Internet than Egyptians, depriving them of one of the tools that helped organize the mass protests in Cairo"
Just like suppressing any other people, the harder you make it for a group to perform basic life sustaining tasks, the less likely it'll be for any member of that group to ever thrive.
