[NA-Discuss] Fwd: The Internet Society on Egypt’s Internet shutdown

[gbruen at knujon.com]

Two articles on CNN explain why the Egyptian "kill switch" has actually 
failed

This one shows that the protests continue to grow without Internet access:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/01/31/egypt.internet/index.html?hpt=T1

This one shows that the use of social media was critical leading up to the 
shutdown and by then it was too late:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/01/27/egypt.protests.social.media/index.html

Like I said previously, this extreme action is an admission a government has 
lost control. However, this may occur again in the near future especially if 
Egypt's government steps down(as seems to be the case) in some neighboring 
countries.




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From: "Evan Leibovitch" <evan at telly.org>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 8:04 PM
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Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Fwd: The Internet Society on Egypt’s Internet 
shutdown

> I ask interested folks here to read these two items:
>
> The Internet Society Q&A and position statement
> http://isoc.org/wp/newsletter/?p=3100
>
> A blog entry from ICANN's CEO
> http://blog.icann.org/2011/01/status-report-on-the-dns-in-egypt/
>
> I have some ideas on possible action based on these, but I'd like to sleep
> on it first.
>
>
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