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Censorship: Egypt has shut off the internet
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Frizz Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 271 Credit: 5,852,934 RAC: 0 |
' ... Reports are emerging that Internet has gone down in Cairo and throughout Egypt, only hours before the largest planned protests yet. According to a report from The Arabist, "Egypt has shut off the internet." ...' More here: huffingtonpost.com Petition against 1366x768 glare displays: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_153240404724993 |
Miep Send message Joined: 23 Jul 99 Posts: 2412 Credit: 351,996 RAC: 0 |
I don't usually do politics :P They've shut down mobiles as well. They are desperate to keep the country under the current (pro western) government (whatever you think of whether or not Mubarak should be replaced). You do NOT want Egypt to end up in the hands of an islamistic government. They are the single largest military power there (courtesy of heavy military aid to keep the less pro western countries at bay). The region is a tinder box ready to explode. Anybody read Nostradamus lately? :P Carola ------- I'm multilingual - I can misunderstand people in several languages! |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
it appears there are some crackdowns coming. What they don't understand is that you don't need the internet to get info out. any reasonable person could easily slip a video to a news agency like the BBC or CNN In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
Frizz Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 271 Credit: 5,852,934 RAC: 0 |
What they don't understand is that you don't need the internet to get info out. any reasonable person could easily slip a video to a news agency like the BBC or CNN It's not about getting information, pictures & videos to the (international) media. The Internet, Twitter, Facebook, etc. is blocked because the Tunesian people sucessfully used it to organize their revolution. Egypt rulers fear that this will happen in their country as well. Petition against 1366x768 glare displays: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_153240404724993 |
Frizz Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 271 Credit: 5,852,934 RAC: 0 |
You do NOT want Egypt to end up in the hands of an islamistic government. They are the single largest military power there IMHO the single largest military power there is Saudi Arabia: "The United States sold more than $80 billion in military hardware between 1951-2006 ... On October 20, 2010, U.S. State Department notified Congress of its intention to make the biggest arms sale in American history - an estimated $60.5 billion purchase by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. ". <irony> But thank god the Saudi Arabians are our friends. </irony> Petition against 1366x768 glare displays: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_153240404724993 |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
Don't think for a minute that we'd sell them anything that we couldnt knock out of the sky or out shoot in a tank battle. Generally speaking these arms sales are for used goods that we have found obsolete In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30683 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Don't think for a minute that we'd sell them anything that we couldnt knock out of the sky or out shoot in a tank battle. Generally speaking these arms sales are for used goods that we have found obsolete Wishful thinking. |
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