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Egypt Coming Back On the 'net

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the welcome-back-to-the-future dept.

An anonymous reader wrote in with the good news that after 5 days of blackout, "Egypt is coming back on-line. Some sites that didn't used to be available and are now back include two telcos: Vodafone Egypt and Etisalat Egypt. Guess that we can't have those IPv4 addresses back after all then."

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  1. Wow by gcnaddict · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Guess that we can't have those IPv4 address back after all then."

    Okay, that was good.

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  2. Right to Bear Internet Arms by Tokolosh · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Access to the internet and other forms of communication are one of our arms we have in defense of our liberties. The internet should therefore fall under the protection of the 2nd Amendment. Resist the kill-switch!

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    1. Re:Right to Bear Internet Arms by commodore6502 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Actually the internet falls under Amendment 10: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution..... are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." In other words neither the Union Congress, the President, nor the Supreme Court were ever delegated the power to turn-off the internet.

      That power is reserved to the Member States in perpetuity, until such time as they amend the Constitution to give that power to the central government. Which has not happened.

      The power to turn-off the net remains in the hands of your Local Legislature, which is where it should be - close to the people. (My legislator lives on the same street as me - if he ever turned off my internet, I and my neighbors would probably toilet paper the house.)

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  3. Vodafone Egypt by Cimexus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well if Vodafone Egypt is anything like Vodafone Australia, the distinction between the network being 'on' or 'off' will be difficult to spot! :P

  4. Rolling back? by cloude-pottier · · Score: 4, Funny

    I imagine that Egypt's ISPs tried cutting over to IPv6-only infrastructure. This is all just a coincidence, nothing to do with the protests. I'm glad they've rolled back to IPv4 though, we can't be depriving people of access to Twitter and Facebook.

  5. I'm Egyptian by mhh91 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    they only brought back the internet to make people go home without internet,more people joined the protests because they had nothing better to do anyway now,people are urging others to join the protests via social networking sites I don't think the Egyptian government can do anything about these protests really,other than stepping down,that is

    1. Re:I'm Egyptian by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      These protests are incredible!

      And about time.

      I went to school with a few Egyptians and they were constantly telling me that they wanted a Democracy. Unfortunately, the US government, my Government, was giving that asshole Mubarak billions of dollars a year in "aid" so that we could have an Arab "friend" in the region - of course pissing off the Arab peoples and giving them yet more reasons to hate me and my country (justified).

      I really hope you and your people get what you wish for and I really really hope my Government doesn't fuck things up for you folks.

      --May Allah be with you and your people.

  6. There was a joke circulating around ... by kubis · · Score: 5, Funny

    What are eGyptians without Internet? Gyptians! ;)

  7. Calm transition to democracy is best by h00manist · · Score: 4, Insightful

    An orderly transitional government, to setup fair and open elections, would likely lead to more debate of the issues, and a government reflecting the people, which are mixed, secular and religious. If it turns messy and confrontational, more emotional and less rational, radical groups get better chances, be they right, left, military, religious, corporate or whatever.

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  8. Re:Citizens being removed from mailing lists? by realxmp · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They got cut off, then they got systematically removed from mailing lists?

    I don't think it's a conspiracy. They've probably just been automatically removed by the mailing list's bounce handler. They were down for long enough for most SMTP servers to give up and do a return to sender which causes most mailer software to remove you.

  9. One site stayed up. by Animats · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One site that stayed up through all this was the Library of Alexandria, which, among other things, hosts a copy of the Internet Archive. They now have photos up of their supporters surrounding the Library to protect it.

    They stayed up because they have a direct connection to the 10Gb/s FLAG, the Fiber Optic Around the Globe link. That has a cable landing at Alexandria, and the Library is tied in there, without going through a local ISP.