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Thread ID: 115661 2011-01-28 20:35:00 No internet for Egypt nedkelly (9059) PC World Chat
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1173373 2011-01-28 20:35:00 www.nzherald.co.nz

Wow they have more pipes than we do, so it would be easier for NZ to do it than Egypt.
Scary thought
nedkelly (9059)
1173374 2011-01-28 21:33:00 Perhaps the international phone companies can complete the job and disconnect Egypt entirely from the telephone system.

The Egyptian government would then have to send messages by camel train :clap
Terry Porritt (14)
1173375 2011-01-28 21:34:00 Satellite anyone ? Digby (677)
1173376 2011-01-28 22:15:00 Hopefully the protesters can work around the internet being limited. They should be able to text.
Be good to see the last of that dictator, never liked him too friendly to isreal. Now they have the Sinai back they should be helping the Palestinians who are under occupation.
The Russe in 1917 and The Iranians in 1979 didnt need the internet in their revolution.
prefect (6291)
1173377 2011-01-28 22:24:00 check out this article (www.prisonplanet.com) on Egypts 'disconnection' mOOseCaNNoN (13319)
1173378 2011-01-29 07:56:00 Yes and I remember there was a big street protest in Serbia (Belgrade) about 15 years ago, I could not believe the number of people they got out on the streets.

It seems to me that in general the Tunisian army and police and the same with Egypt did not want to fire on their people, and indeed they may have helped them.

Compare that to the brutality that put down the Iranian revolt last year (and their secret police) that went on for days, but they shut it down.

Funny how many corrupt dictators flee and end up in Saudi Arabia.
Digby (677)
1173379 2011-01-29 19:36:00 This bodes badly for the US - not so much politically, as it may well also be that - but this idea of a 'Shut Down Switch' for the internet has pricked up the ears of a lot of politicians.

I always thought that the internet would be the last hold-out and one of the last things to go down when the US publicly invokes martial law.

Looks like the star chambers are getting ideas now and this is not gonna be good.
SurferJoe46 (51)
1173380 2011-01-29 20:03:00 If the protesters win I suspect that we will see another rouge Islamic state set up as as they are the only ones with a peace treaty with Israel I suspect it will be the first thing thrown out the door. Just want we need, more fanatical Muslim states in the Middle East.. paulw (1826)
1173381 2011-01-29 21:25:00 If the protesters win I suspect that we will see another rouge Islamic state set up as as they are the only ones with a peace treaty with Israel I suspect it will be the first thing thrown out the door. Just want we need, more fanatical Muslim states in the Middle East..

And about time they scrapped the peace treaty. No way Egypt will become an Islamic state because 10% of the population are christians. Egyptians never really super religious anyway.
prefect (6291)
1173382 2011-01-29 21:50:00 Pretty brutal

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