[governance] FW: Egypt, let your people go online!

[McTim]

Brett,

Do you know for a fact that these companies "helped"?  I suspect "We
really won't know the full extent" of the complicity for a long time
(if ever.

If you have documented evidence that FT and Voda willingly shut
themselves down, then I'd be happy to sign.  If no evidence, then it
smacks of knee-jerk anti-corporatism.
-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel


On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: Egypt, let your people go online!
> From:    "Brett Solomon" <brett at accessnow.org>
> Date:    Sat, January 29, 2011 6:53 pm
> To:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Dear friends and colleagues,
>
> Please find the link to the updated campaign we sent out last night calling
> on *Mr Mubarak to tear down the firewall* - It would be great if you could
> tweet this and sign the link below:
>
> *Egypt, let your people go online! Sign new
> @accessnow<http://twitter.com/accessnow>petition calling on ISPs and telecos
> to reconnect #Egypt <http://twitter.com/search?q=%23Egypt>
> #Jan25<http://twitter.com/search?q=%23Jan25>:
> http://bit.ly/fqDmCZ*
>
> Full text of the campaign below.
>
> ----
>
> With the help of European companies like Vodafone and Orange/France Telecom
> the Egyptian government shut down the internet and cut the phone lines.
> Despite news that the mobile phones are back up in some places, Egyptians
> demonstrating in the streets for a peaceful end to decades of tyranny are
> facing an attempted blackout.
>
> By succumbing to the regime's pressure, Vodafone and Orange/France Telecom
> betrayed their own operating principles and taken away one of the most
> important tools the people can use to challenge the iron fist of the
> Egyptian regime.  Egyptian and internationally funded ISPs bear the same
> responsibility. Join us in calling them out on their complicity in human
> rights abuse and demanding that they immediately restore service to Egypt.
>
>  <https://www.accessnow.org/breaktheblackout>
> https://www.accessnow.org/GetEgyptBackOnline
>
> With most of the country without any access to the internet, mobile phones,
> or SMS, it's very difficult to know what kind of human rights abuses the
> Egyptian government may be committing.  The Egyptian police are shooting at
> unarmed protestors and journalists, setting cars on fire, and spraying
> protestors with water cannons and tear gas. We really won't know the full
> extent of the violence until the internet and mobile networks are restored.
> Please sign this petition, which we will deliver to Vodafone, Orange/France
> Telecom and the ISPs, urging them to reopen or maintain the channels of
> communication:
>
>  <https://www.accessnow.org/breaktheblackout>
> https://www.accessnow.org/GetEgyptBackOnline
>
> --
> Brett Solomon
> Executive Director
> Access
> www.accessnow.org
>
> <http://www.europarl.europa.eu/parliament/public/staticDisplay.do?language=e
> n&id=42>
>
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