Friday 28 January 2011

Internet secrets of the Pharaohs

The Egyptian government denies censorship and banning internet access.

Here's a lovely graph detailing the number of web addresses with Egyptian prefixes banned yesterday.



Last night they cut off access to the web for the whole country! That's never been done before, although weirdo Lieberman in the US Senate is introducing a law to make it possible in the US, and my own cerebrally-challenged MP, Paul Uppal, has asked the government to 'address the issue of the internet', whatever that means.

Here's the graph for Egyptian internet activity for yesterday (click to enlarge):

1 comment:

Some Chilean Woman said...

Hope you're having a good day.

I read that this morning, so sad.

There are so many things we would not be able to do without the internet not only socially, but also in the workplace. Things would just fall apart for us really, it's scary.