Libya Blocks Internet Access As Citizens Protest

An anonymous reader writes "As protests rage across the Middle East, in particular gaining strength in Libya, Djibouti, Iraq, Bahrain, and Yemen over the past two days, Libya has taken the lead role in blocking internet access to its citizens. Residents of Tripoli, Libya are reporting wide-spread internet blockage for most sites, and access to circumvention tools like OperaTor and VPN is also being blocked."

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[clarkkent09]

Instead, they'll do what they did for the Iraq War protests. Paint the protesters as lazy slackers with nothing better to do, and ignore them.
 
Except they mostly were lazy slackers with nothing better to do. Have you ever been to an anti-war protest? I have, and in San Francisco too. There might have been one or two serious people among the mass of stoned hippies, pathetically naive students protesting because protesting is cool, radical idiots with Mao t-shirts and "Kill Bush" posters and a variety of far left "american socialist communist worker peoples whatever" banners. Not exactly a picture of responsible taxpayers. Image is everything, don't you know that?