That link Michael sent has some great points. No modern society in the age of the internet has turned it off.
How is the rest of the financial world going to react? Embassies? Corporations? Even if he can hang on to power, I think he may have broken his country for years to come. On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > It isn't an overreaction. > > Egypt has never had protests like this before and no one that I'm > aware of who follows Egypt was expecting anything like what they are > seeing right now from the populace. Mubarak is caught totally flat > footed. He knows how to deal with groups like the Muslim Brotherhood. > They know the leaders, they know who to arrest and shut up. But this? > They haven't dealt with a leaderless uprising before. > > There have been a number of killings already and when I last heard, > there had been two self immolations. The biggest protests are planned > for tomorrow after prayer service. Mubarak is trying to shut down all > media in and out of the country in anticipation. I was getting regular > updates from my friends in Cairo prior to the net getting knocked > offline but for right now, nothing. > > Looks like a rough ride tomorrow and makes the transition in Lebanon > to rule by Hezbollah seem idyllic. > > Judah > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Michael Dinowitz > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Looks like the Egyptian government has one of those internet kill > switches. > > They have 4 big ISPs and it looks like the government had them shut down > all > > connections to the 'outside world'. Kind of an extreme reaction to the > > protests going on over there, but after seeing Tunisia I guess those in > > power want to remain in power. ** > > > > http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:333737 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
