<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Al Jazeera has much more influence on happenings in the Middle East than the internet...<div><br></div><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> parminder <parminder@itforchange.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "gov >> "governance@lists.cpsr.org"" <governance@lists.cpsr.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, 28 January, 2011 7:23:52 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [governance] Internet blackout in Egypt<br></font><br>
<pre>Today may turn out to be a historic day for Egypt...<br><br><br>Pl read below.<br><br>AP: "The day part of the Internet died: Egypt goes dark"<br><br><a rel="nofollow" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/gCJFHt">http://bit.ly/gCJFHt</a> (AP / MSN)<br><br> "The Internet blackout in Egypt shows that a country with strong<br> control over its Internet providers apparently can force all of<br> them to pull their plugs at once, something that Cowie called<br> 'almost entirely unprecedented in Internet history.'"</pre>
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