Shabab Libya

Shabab Libya (alternatively written as shabablibya), also known as the Libyan Youth Movement (Arabic: حركة شباب ليبيا), or LYM for short, is a Libyan Facebook group started in February 2011 to spread awareness on planned protests (17 February) across the country. As the uprising began, the Libyan Youth Movement provided news, images and videos in real time across the world and acted as a unified voice for the Libyan people.

Libyan Youth Movement
Harket Shabab Libya
حركة شباب ليبيا
Harket Shabab Libya
حركة شباب ليبيا
Founded2 February 2011
TypePressure group
Political group
FocusDemocracy
Social justice
Free and fair election
Civil resistance
Area served
 Libya
MethodSocial media
Websiteshabablibya.org

Members of the movement used Twitter as well as Facebook and YouTube to spread news from inside Libya throughout the revolution. As of February 2016, they have over 53,000 followers on their Facebook page and 201,000 followers on Twitter.

Background

The Libyan Youth Movement was founded by Omar Amer on 2 February 2011 in anticipation of a planned uprising on 17 February 2011. This quickly caught on as the only Libyan movement in the English language at that time.

The organisation had interviews with several major news outlets during the Libyan Civil War.[1][2]

gollark: How should profile pictures work? Presumably you'd want them globally set, so they'd be fetched from your identity server, but would each server you chat in have to proxy them or something?
gollark: The actual messaging features are in a different spec to their bizarre XML encapsulation formats.
gollark: Indeed. I think we may be slightly reinventing XMPP, but XMPP is beeoid due to it being overly "extensible".
gollark: - better interserver capability than IRC's weird tree thing
gollark: osmarksdecentralizedchatoid™ featuring:- approximately IRCous design instead of the matrix state synchronisation one - channels belong to a particular server which manages history and permissions and such- global accounts looking somewhat like email addresses. Or maybe they're just public keys and people have to something something web of trust the actual name.- end to end encryption option for small private channels

References
  1. http://observers.france24.com/content/20110221-alleged-african-mercenary-captured-libya-Gaddafi-unrest-Benghazi-Libyan-youth-movement
  2. http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2011/s3151787.htm
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