Friday, January 28, 2011

Egypt is off the Internet

Web traffic to Egypt (Pic via Arbor Networks)
As of last night Egypt has apparently completely unplugged itself from the internet in order to prevent people from using it as a tool to organize their protest against president Mubarak (in office for the past 30 years). Basically the country is cut off from the world.

(via AP)

7 comments:

  1. What a shame.
    I know they play a huge part in smuggling steroids, don't know if that'll change.
    Leo,
    http://simplykidleo.blogspot.com/

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  2. haha, nice move of theyre government. :D

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  3. Is there anymore powerful force on the planet that can be used for the spread of democracy than the good old internet? I think not!

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  5. is this real life?

    ectomorphmuscle.blogspot.com

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  6. That is quite scary. And to think the US was going to introduce that Internet Kill Switch..

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