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In Desperation Move, Egyptian Regime Shuts Down Access to Iowahawk

Posted on | January 28, 2011 | 23 Comments

Also, the entire freaking Internet:

[I]n an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt appear to be unaffected for now. But every Egyptian provider, every business, bank, Internet cafe, website, school, embassy, and government office that relied on the big four Egyptian ISPs for their Internet connectivity is now cut off from the rest of the world.

No porn downloads for you! Also, no Perez Hilton, no Facebook friend requests from people you don’t actually know, and no YouTube comments from President Obama.

So, other than losing access to Iowahawk, it’s not so bad, eh?

UPDATE: The latest news:

The Egyptian capital Cairo was the scene of violent chaos Friday, when tens of thousands of anti-government protesters stoned and confronted police, who fired back with rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons.

Egyptians sure take their access to Iowahawk seriously, don’t they?

UPDATE II: Welcome, Instapundit readers!


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Comments

  • Bob Belvedere

    !!!! But they loves my Rule 5 postings in Alexandria!

  • Bob Belvedere

    !!!! But they loves my Rule 5 postings in Alexandria!

  • http://norunnyeggs.com steveegg

    It will backfire – the Iowahawk-ites are fanatical in Cairo.

  • vermontaigne

    You can help, particularly if you have an extra computer, by dedicating some bandwidth to the “Cloud”: https://www.accessnow.org/proxy-cloud/page/join-the-cloud

  • Joe
  • Joan of Argghh!

    On the positive side, no spam-detonated cell-phone attacks are likely.

  • Anonymous

    Susanna Hoffs loves her some Iowahawk.

  • http://twitter.com/pathtotyranny Michael E. Newton

    I hear that my book, The Path to Tyranny, is not available for sale in Egypt. Mubarak trying to cover up his tyranny?

  • http://twitter.com/RightKlik RightKlik

    So… Net neutrality comes to Egypt. (No net is more neutral than the one that doesn’t exist.)

  • DamnCat

    Iowahawk’s Coup of Justice

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  • DaveO

    The one upside to Mubarak was he kept the peace with Israel. The downside is he’s very much a ruthless dictator. Sic semper tyrannus!

  • DaveO

    The one upside to Mubarak was he kept the peace with Israel. The downside is he’s very much a ruthless dictator. Sic semper tyrannus!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FG4WJJYGEKRSSEI7ZBESIGGQVA DanielD

    Well then, all they need to stop the riots is a couple of kegs of Old Style.

  • rickb223

    “when tens of thousands of anti-government protesters stoned and confronted police, ”

    Never get stoned & confront the police. Bad juju.

  • rickb223

    “when tens of thousands of anti-government protesters stoned and confronted police, ”

    Never get stoned & confront the police. Bad juju.

  • rickb223

    Geez. I need new glasses. I’d have bet money that that said “Mubarak trying to cover up his tranny?”

  • rickb223

    Geez. I need new glasses. I’d have bet money that that said “Mubarak trying to cover up his tranny?”

  • Adobe_Walls

    I can’t recall ever confronting the Police when I wasn’t stoned ( misspent youth).

  • Adobe_Walls

    This is already making the Mosques the main communication hubs, I know that’s what I want to hear when there is a significant Governmental change in the Middle East.

  • http://twitter.com/pathtotyranny Michael E. Newton

    Had to double check and make sure I didn’t typo that. Thank goodness I didn’t.

  • Bob Belvedere

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