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Monday, January 31, 2011
A Scary Proposition: How Egypt Shutdown the Internet to Try and Quell the Uprising
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Here's a scary proposition - how a country can very easily shutdown the Internet in a time of crisis. Indeed, one of the first things Egyptian authorities did in trying to quell anti-government rallies in Egypt was to shut down the Internet, Fox Business' Shibani Joshi explains how Egypt Shutdown the Internet - Watch below and comment here on the blog:
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