[governance] Internet blackout in Egypt

[McTim]

This is why its madness to comtenplate giving govts MORE control over
things Internety. Rgds, McTim

On 1/28/11, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> Today may turn out to be a historic day for Egypt...
>
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> Pl read below.
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> AP: "The day part of the Internet died: Egypt goes dark"
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> http://bit.ly/gCJFHt  (AP / MSN)
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>    "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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Cheers,

McTim
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