One Per Cent: Government disconnects Egypt from internet
One Per Cent: Government disconnects Egypt from internet:
"Protesters against the government had been coordinating their actions on social networking sites, leading the government to block the likes of Twitter and Facebook, but many got around these restrictions by using smartphones or proxy servers. Now, access through any means is almost impossible - Egypt is effectively offline.
'The Egyptian government's actions tonight have essentially wiped their country from the global map,' said James Cowie of Renesys, a internet access monitoring company, in a blog post last night. 'What happens when you disconnect a modern economy and 80,000,000 people from the internet?'"
'The Egyptian government's actions tonight have essentially wiped their country from the global map,' said James Cowie of Renesys, a internet access monitoring company, in a blog post last night. 'What happens when you disconnect a modern economy and 80,000,000 people from the internet?'"
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