Egypt Unplugs Itself From The Internet

Don't they understand that they're crippling their country with this nonsense?

Don't they understand that they're crippling their country with this nonsense?

Once the radical Muslim Brotherhood takes over Egypt, there won't be any Internet for the people there to access ever again.

These people turn to theocratic rule because the so called free market is so corrupt that their lives are awful. No work, money, opportunity... Iran is the way it is now because the people got tired of the US backed Shah who was so corrupt that anything seemed better than what his facist government offered.

These people turn to theocratic rule ...

These people turn to theocratic rule because the so called free market is so corrupt that their lives are awful. No work, money, opportunity...

"You don’t throw a blanket over something unless you want to hide it."

I expect we'll hear some very scary stories filtering out through the Egyptian borders over the coming days.

YDiversify and read multiple news souses other than Fox.

This has NOTHING to do with religion.

Actually I'm in my 50's, own my own successful business.

It is Class Warfare. The lower classes of society have had enough.

Do not demonize an entire region of the world because you personally disagree with their culture or religion. Part of the problem is the ruling elite have and have completely screwed their citizens. Research Tunisia and look at what his family and friends were doing. Again this has nothing to do with religion. It is Class Warfare. The lower classes of society have had enough.

Reports that a group affiliated with Al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, continues to play a role in the protests point to a significant risk ahead

Egypt has a dictator and the people are sick of it. He's just as bad as Saddam and uses his regime to win election after election.

Egypt has a dictator and the people are sick of it. He's just as bad as Saddam and uses his regime to win election after election.

Reports that a group affiliated with Al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, continues to play a role in the protests point to a significant risk ahead

Everything in the mid-east is about religion and the politics of religion and to think otherwise is to ignore that reality.

Of course religious groups may also want to get into this, and possible hijack the revolution, but they didn't start it.

I don't think this has much to do with freedom and democracy. It's about the freedom to create theocratic rule

I doubt they're trying to hide anything. It's probably intended to blind the people who are rioting. Eliminate the most effective communication method they have to organize opposition.

It seems like a reasonable response to widespread rioting. Someone my say the riots are justified. But, see my previous post. I don't think this has much to do with freedom and democracy. It's about the freedom to create theocratic rule. That would be far more despotic and backwards than the heavy-handed dictatorial "democracy" Egypt has.

for some yummy Egyptian rock soup....

But seriously...kind of reminds me of pre-Civil War US...keep the masses you wish to control uneducated.

Why not dial up to another country? Sure there'd be costs, but it's better than a blackout...

Set up a fiber wireless ISP right along the border say about a mile off. Fiber backhaul to the rest of the internet and leave the wireless towers say about a mile outside the border.

I wonder how quick the border towns would start selling land then?

And what border would that be?
Libya and Sudan are over a 1000 miles away from Cairo and the Nile delta where all the people live. And somehow I doubt that Israel, the closest border, will allow someone to setup on their territory being the purpose would be to enthrone the Muslim Brotherhood as the replacement for Mubarak.

Let's hope it's not replaced by a repressive islamic-facist state that is even worse.

Remember, many of the Sept. 11th hijackers either were or were formerly Egyptian nationals. Egypt really is a hotbed of terrorism and related nonsense.