[liberationtech] Egyptian web traffic stopped

[Jillian C. York]

The structure is such that the government doesn't really have control over
the various ISPs in any technical sense and instead must force them to shut
off individually...that's why one (Noor) still manages to remain up
(renesys' guess is as good as mine as to why).



On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Enrique Piraces <piracee at hrw.org> wrote:

> By now you probably are all aware of this.
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> http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5292/5394246995_11ac170497_b.jpg
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> Does anyone know how this could be done?  I don’t  know much about Egyptian
> infrastructure or which institution has the power to turn the switch off.
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> Thanks,
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> Enrique
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> Human Rights Watch
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