{"id":2245,"date":"2011-01-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jboitnott.com\/egypts-internet-still-shut-off\/"},"modified":"2020-04-14T17:38:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T17:38:50","slug":"egypts-internet-still-shut-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jboitnott.com\/zh\/egypts-internet-still-shut-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt’s Internet Still Shut Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is another piece of coverage<\/a> on the Egyptian Revolution<\/a>\u00a0on jboitnott.com back in 2010. This post discussed the ongoing Internet blackout as dictator Hosni Mubarak tried holding on to power. We was eventually ousted.<\/em><\/p>\n

As of noon on Friday the “government” of Egypt\u00a0effectively\u00a0switched off all Internet\u00a0connections in and out of the country. Therefore, the Internet is still down. President Hosni Mubarak also ordered the shutdown of mobile phone networks, including one run by Vodafone. His goal is to undermine the growing protests over his rule, which many observers are calling an Egyptian Revolution.<\/p>\n

The world has seen net filtering and disruption in places like Burma and Iran following social and political unrests. But, Egypt\u2019s decision to switch off its\u00a0internet\u00a0is quite different, according to Craig Labovitz, the chief scientist at security firm\u00a0Arbor Networks<\/a>. Labovitz goes on to say the following:<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s different with Egypt is the scale. By that I mean that Egypt has fairly significant internet infrastructure with a diversity of paths \u2014 satellite, microwave and fiber links. It has a number of large providers and hundreds of smaller providers. It’s one of the more significant Internet infrastructures in the Middle East and certainly within Africa. Egypt has a very well-developed economy with a significant reliance on the Internet. This is very different from Burma.<\/p>\n

There are a handful of big providers you would need to coordinate with and they are all licensees of the state telecom. So, they are all beholden to the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority. So, your license is dependent on following the rules.<\/p>\n

This action is inconsistent with all international human rights norms. It is unprecedented in Internet history. Egypt\u2019s actions will only fuel unrest and make peaceful resolution of grievances far more difficult.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following is another piece of coverage on the Egyptian Revolution\u00a0on jboitnott.com back in 2010. This post discussed the ongoing Internet blackout as dictator Hosni Mubarak tried holding on to power. We was eventually ousted. As of noon on Friday the “government” of Egypt\u00a0effectively\u00a0switched off all Internet\u00a0connections in and out of the country. 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