And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

In February 2011, during Egypt's political revolution, the government forced mobile operators including Vodafone to send propaganda messages to citizens' phones, with Vodafone claiming it had no legal choice but to comply with authorities' demands. The incident raises difficult questions about corporate responsibility, the limits of technological safeguards against government coercion, and whether technologists can truly build systems that prevent abuse when backed by state force.