Egyptian Government disconnects Egypt from the itnernet

[wuxia1911]

Summary
Amid further protests in Egypt planned for tomorrow and social networks have been blocked, reports indicate the Internet has been ’switched off’ in the region.

read more here:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/egypt-shuts-down-internet-amid-further-protests-facebook-web-traffic-drops/7915


Man this is some crazy shit, Egypt is worse than China!

[Banafes]

Yah it is confirmed , internet connection in major cities at least is being cut off , but that is not the extent of it , even the mobile"cellular" lines is being cut-off and the electric current is being cut from many blocks that harbours big mosques to prevent to use the microphones of these mosques to gather protesters after the Friday Prayer at noon .

[wuxia1911]

Yah it is confirmed , internet connection in major cities at least is being cut off , but that is not the extent of it , even the mobile"cellular" lines is being cut-off and the electric current is being cut from many blocks that harbours big mosques to prevent to use the microphones of these mosques to gather protesters after the Friday Prayer at noon .


Wow, they would do that? Jesus christ..

[Banafes]

now the army forces have entered the streets to control it , and a curfew is now in action that bans any movements in the streets from 6 pm till 7 am

[wuxia1911]

now the army forces have entered the streets to control it , and a curfew is now in action that bans any movements in the streets from 6 pm till 7 am

I have a feeling that the current Egyptian administration is gonna be gone real soon...

[malvavisko]

Woah! and I tought we had some freedom...From were I'm looking from it looks like a timebomb

[justian]

As if blocking the net isn't bad, shutting it down entirely! Its like going back to the pre-internet age again.

[zerocool]

we lived some very very hard days here in egypt
life without internet is SHIT

[dodza]

yea yr feeling was right =)

[dodza]

yea the president was retarted but we kicked him out =)
btw am from egypt
and yea its worse than china but we hope it gets better
after kicking the president
btw the news is saying hosni mobarak got 70billion $
what the hell he is richer than any1 :S

[malvavisko]

I saw some really rough pictures the other day about some disturbs taking place on Egipt...don't know if I should post them here, they're pretty harsh, there are even pics of some dead freedom fighters...a real shame...

[lawlsauce]

its crazy how a government can disconnect everyone's internet just like that