[liberationtech] Facebook and Twitter Blocked in Egypt?

[Walid Al-Saqaf]

Thanks Jilian,

I just got confirmation that users using EgyptNetProvider (an ISP in Egypt)
has blocked both facebook.com (and its subdomains and aliases, e.g.,
www.facebook.com) has now been blocked and so is fbcdn.net and its
subdomains, which indicate that the Egyptian ISPs resorted to IP blocking to
the facebook IP range. I have not yet confirmed that whole IP ranges of
facebook are blocked but I could guess that the technicians overseeing
filtering are capable of listing subnets corresponding to the pool of
facebook and twitter IPs.

Did anyone see this coming?

Sincerely,

Walid

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Walid Al-Saqaf
Founder & Administrator
alkasir for mapping and circumventing cyber censorship
https://alkasir.com <walid.al-saqaf at oru.se>


On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Jillian C. York <jilliancyork at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Walid,
>
> I confirmed (through friends in Cairo) yesterday by noon that Twitter was
> blocked; Twitter confirmed the block last night around 6pm.
>
> I haven't received confirmations on Facebook yet.
>
> -Jill
>
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Walid Al-Saqaf <admin at alkasir.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> You may have followed the dramatic events in Egypt since yesterday. I have
>> confirmations now directly through alkasir, which tracks censorship, through
>> the Egyptian media, through a friend in Cairo. I had a look at Herdict and
>> can tell that Twitter is reported to be blocked while facebook reports are
>> still not enough to confirm.
>>
>> The issue is a bit unclear because there are many different ISPs operating
>> in Egypt and hence, it may well be that not all of them are blocking those
>> websites yet.
>>
>> Can you help out by verifying the status of those websites if you were in
>> Cairo or through people you know in Egypt?
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Walid
>>
>> -----------------
>>
>> Walid Al-Saqaf
>> Founder & Administrator
>> alkasir for mapping and circumventing cyber censorship
>> https://alkasir.com <walid.al-saqaf at oru.se>
>>
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