[governance] Internet blackout in Egypt

[parminder]

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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