[governance] Internet blackout in Egypt

[McTim]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Nyangkwe Agien Aaron
<nyangkweagien at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes McTim
>
> But Internet ws created by man not out of any said government policy



Well, the Internet originally was concieved, designed and built under
US contracts, so it was created by government policy in many ways.



> (I hope Tim Lee will not disagree here)

The Internet was around for many years before html


>
> How on earth did it even occur to some one that Governments (that are
> mainly bureaucrats) be given leeways to control Internet.

a long, sordid sad story I'm afraid.


-- 
Cheers,

McTim
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