[governance] Internet blackout in Egypt
David Goldstein
goldstein_david at yahoo.com.au
Fri Jan 28 03:58:25 EST 2011
Al Jazeera has much more influence on happenings in the Middle East than the
internet...
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From: parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>
To: "gov >> "governance at lists.cpsr.org"" <governance at lists.cpsr.org>
Sent: Fri, 28 January, 2011 7:23:52 PM
Subject: [governance] Internet blackout in Egypt
Today may turn out to be a historic day for Egypt...
Pl read below.
AP: "The day part of the Internet died: Egypt goes dark"
http://bit.ly/gCJFHt (AP / MSN)
"The Internet blackout in Egypt shows that a country with strong
control over its Internet providers apparently can force all of
them to pull their plugs at once, something that Cowie called
'almost entirely unprecedented in Internet history.'"
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