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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: TIME 100: Who Does Wael Ghonim Find Most Influential? [Watch (HLS stream): TIME 100: Who Does Wael Ghonim Find Most Influential?](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/S6d84vrN.m3u8) (1:39)  _Published 2011-04-21. 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You know, Khalid was, was, was a big influence to me because you know when we've, I personally feel that I could have been this guy. This guy could have been my brother, or one of my relatives, or you know a close friend. And I wanted to do something for him and then starting from that point, I started you know, reading more about you know, the police practices, the torture, all the systematic violations of human rights and I became much more interested in human rights after that. Also the Tunisian people have influenced me a lot. At the very beginning of their revolution, we were thinking nothing is going to happen and we're not really optimistic about that. And when they managed to get rid of their dictator Ben Ali it was like a big wow. and, at that time we were, we completely changed and we thought, let's do it. And you know, both of us, you know the Tunisian people, the Egyptian people and also other, you know, other nations now have proven that the power of people is stronger than the people in power. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"TIME 100: Who Does Wael Ghonim Find Most Influential?","description":"The Internet activist on his greatest influences","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/S6d84vrN/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2011-04-21T10:27:56.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/S6d84vrN.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/S6d84vrN/","duration":"PT1M39S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/S6d84vrN/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```