Twitter now blocked in Egypt

[nadinbrzezinski]

Source: Yahoo News

As anti-government protesters and police clash in Cairo today, reports indicate that the Egyptian government is making an effort to censor Twitter and other websites.
As with the protests in Tunisia throughout the last month (which at least partially inspired the Egyptian uprising), the protest in Cairo was organized using Facebook.

The Christian Science Monitor reports that more than 90,000 people signed up on a Facebook Page for the protests in the past week, though the turnout appears to be much smaller than that.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/mashable/20110125/tc_mashable/t...



Well folks this is the actual fall of dominoes. Just don't expect Crowley at state to be this open. I mean after decades of saying if we do not go to war they will fall like dominos... it is quite funny in a way that yes... we are into domino mode. Tell me, who is next? Jordan?

I am sure some at State are actually worried that THIS IS the ACTUAL domino going.

[Swede]

1. Interesting times. Reminds of the end of the Iron Curtain.

Hopefully this too doesn't have much bloodshed.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Yes, this is what it has the feeling off

and it will probably not stay in the Arab World... the student demos in London (and Italy) are also part of this.

People are plain tired.

1848 is actually, in crazy ways, more apropo than 1990...

[Billy Burnett]

2. How the hell will the US msm report on this w/o Twitter?

It's the main "source" nowadays. :shrug:

Funny how the US DoS hosts Twitter for certain uprisings (like in Iran and the various orange ones), but not real populist uprisings.

[Hissyspit]

4. It apparently does't uprisings potentially or indirectly inspired by WikiLeaks?

:shrug:

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Well the BBC is doing fine thank you very much

[jwirr]

6. They took note of how Twitter was used for the other revolts. What

scares me about these dominoes falling is that it may be a "better the devil you know than the devil you do not" situation and we could end up with some really bad governments to deal with in the ME. Wasn't this booooosh's idea of creating democracies by overthrowing the government in Iraq?