[governance] Internet blackout in Egypt

[Bernard Sadaka]

The question that imposes itself is: "What can be done in order to prevent
this?"
How can we garrantee that other countries won't do that as well?
In addition to the social impact think of this impact on business (We
shifted all the communication from internet back to phonecalls, that is if
they don't cut these as well soon... what used to take 15 seconds by email,
is taking 15 minutes by phonecall !!! )

All the best,
Bernard.
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Bernard SADAKA
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On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:23 AM, 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"
> 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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