Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Egypt Shuts Off All Internet Access

Posted by timothy on from the why-not-call-their-skype-accounts? dept.

h00manist writes "Several sources are reporting Egypt has shut off all Internet access. There is still no official confirmation. Blackberry, twitter and SMS seem confirmed off. So, if you were there, what would you do to get communications for everyone? Do you still have a POTS modem?"

4 of 840 comments (clear)

  1. Done in response to this video by juicegg · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It happened immediately after this was posted: http://video.ap.org/?f=None&pid=oT7qj_wiVHTbYae3scwok4_irYjJ2R8Z (warning: disturbing)

  2. Anonymous Has Stepped In by Nethemas+the+Great · · Score: 5, Interesting

    video news guidance

    --
    Two of my imaginary friends reproduced once ... with negative results.
  3. Re:And then there's the Catch 22 by crono_deus · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I'm an Egyptian who had the great luck of being born and raised in the States and many, many opportunities to go back home and visit.

    From what I've gathered, the Muslim Brotherhood is a shadow of their former selves; they were really big in the 80s and 90s, but they've lost direction and momentum. I think that they're currently just a specter straw-man that Mubarak and the Egyptian government likes to throw up to help keep the opposition in check.

    In other words, they're Egypt's Al-Qaeda, a great excuse for a dictator to keep clenching his iron fist.

    I went back there last December to see my cousin get married. Most Egyptians I spoke about politics -- there are elections coming up soon and it's a topic everyone wants to talk about -- seem to want very little to do with the Brotherhood; they blame them for a good number of terrorist and don't want them anywhere near positions of power.

    I don't deny that there's a risk in open elections -- certainly, you run the risk of electing kooks and crazies in every election. I just don't think the Brotherhood is as terrifying a specter as we think they are. At least, not any more. Have a little faith in the Egyptian people.

    --
    Ne Cede Malis.
  4. Re:Wrote about this in 2006... by kbahey · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I will give you the vote part. We do have voting in Egypt, but the elections are predetermined, with a combination of ballot stuffing, intimidation and exclusion.

    Decent life is what we are after. So on that I agree too.

    Now regarding women and education, you are wrong. Orders of magnitudes wrong. My mother, who is in her late 70s now got a higher degree back in the 50s. Two of my maternal aunts got masters degrees and then PhDs (one from the USA, the other from Japan). Two of my aunts from my paternal sides got bachelors degrees and worked too. My wife is a computer engineer.

    Should I go on?

    --
    2bits.com, Inc: Drupal, WordPress, and LAMP performance tuning.