zaterdag 29 januari 2011

How Was Egypt's Internet Access Shut Off?

How Was Egypt's Internet Access Shut Off?: "

Egyptians earlier this week took to the Web-- Facebook and Twitter , in particular--as a means of organizing their protests against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak 's three-decade-old government. As of Friday morning, however, there no longer was much of a Web to take to--at least not in Egypt. In an unprecedented turn of events, at 12:34 A.M. local time in Cairo five of the country's major Internet service providers (ISPs) shut down their connections to the Internet. [More]

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