Egypt Internet Goes Down, According To Reports

[Pharaoh]

Reports are emerging that Internet has gone down in Cairo and perhaps throughout Egypt, only hours before the largest planned protests yet.

According to a report from The Arabist, "Egypt has shut off the internet."

Multiple Internet Service Providers are affected according to the report, which states:

I just received a call from a friend in Cairo (I won't say who it is now because he's a prominent activist) telling me neither his DSL nor his USB internet service is working. I've just checked with two other friends in different parts of Cairo and their internet is not working either.

The news of the Internet outage came minutes after the Associated Press published a video of an Egyptian protestor being shot.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/27/egypt-internet-goes-down-_n_815156.html

[PoliticAverse]

1. So someone gave the leaders an Internet "kill switch" ? n/t

[sabbat hunter]

2. Well when the government

controls the media, phone companies, etc it is easy to do (see China, etc)

[nc4bo]

3. Yep - see what we have to look forward to? nt