Reports say Egypt Web shutdown is coordinated, extensive. Edition CNN. The internet is buzzing with activity, steadily climbing. It suddenly goes amiss, just when anti-government protests are going into full swing.
Egypt loses internet access. This chart shows the amount of internet traffic to and from Egypt as monitored by Arbor Networks, Inc. The dramatic drop coincides with reports of widespread outages throughout the country, the causes of which are unknown.”
Cellular telephone operators were told by authorities to suspend services in parts of Egypt, according to a statement from Vodafone, a global cell carrier that operates there.
Rebellion in the Land of the Pharaohs. WSJ.
Mr. Mubarak put the word out that he would serve two six-year terms and be gone. But the appetite grew with the eating. The humble officer would undergo a transformation. A presidency-for-life announced itself. And in an astounding change… Mr. Mubarak grew imperious and dismissive.
Revolts of this kind are always a gamble on the unknown. At bottom, they are an attempt at self-purification, a society wishes to be done with the stain of submission to a dictator’s transgressions. Amid the tumult, what is so clear today is the hatred felt for the ruler and his immediate family. Reigns like Mr. Mubarak’s devour the green and the dry, as a favored Arab expression has it. The sycophants come to the fore and steal what they can. Those with heart and character and pride are hauled off to prison, or banished to the outer margins of public life.
The Egyptian’s patience has thinned, and they are ready to get rid of the 30-year president and his government. Looting Engulfs Cairo, Other Egyptian Cities. Fox.
The protesters are unified in one overarching demand — Mubarak and his family must go. The movement is a culmination of years of simmering frustration over a government they see as corrupt, heavy-handed and neglectful of grinding poverty.
“Egyptian pharaoh. If your government shuts down the internet, shut down your government.”
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“Philosoraptor on the current situation in Egypt Part 1. Egyptians without internet. Gyptians?”
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See:
- http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/01/28/egypt.internet.shutdown/index.html?iref=NS1
- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703956604576110131980631472.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
- http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/01/29/unrest-sweeps-egypt-president-refuses-quit/
