[governance] Internet blackout in Egypt

[Hakikur Rahman]

Exactly!

+1
Hakikur


At 01:07 PM 1/28/2011, Avri Doria wrote:
>Hi,
>
>This is all one reason while, though I think policy and Internet 
>Governance moves are critical, we need to support the continuing 
>development of technology that stays ahead of any government's 
>ability to shut if off or block it.  This is one reason also for 
>protecting the notion of non centralized services and furthering 
>their development.
>
>a.
>
>
>On 28 Jan 2011, at 06:16, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
>
> > Sorry, McTim, this can happen in any sector in any country in which a
> > government decides to do so in a crisis situation, be it right, just,
> > democratic or, as in this case, dictatorial. When the USA invaded Iraq
> > all communications were cut except for the US military and the "embedded
> > media", just to quote a somewhat more extreme example. The USA
> > government has already explicitly mentioned moves to "shut down" the
> > Internet in a crisis.
> >
> > So, it demonstrates nothing of this sort... We need other arguments to
> > keep our struggle for multiskaholder governance of the Net. Our major
> > worry regarding the "influence" or control of the State over the
> > Internet is what is happening on a day-to-day basis in major countries
> > (like the USA, with the COICA proposal, in France, in England etc) which
> > can in practice draw dozens of other countries' governments to the same
> > trend.
> >
> > --c.a.
> >
> > On 01/28/2011 08:55 AM, McTim wrote:
> >> 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...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 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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