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Originally Posted by Pete
The day part of the Internet died: Egypt goes dark
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/The-da...37415.html?x=0
".................Egypt has apparently done what many technologists thought was unthinkable for any country with a major Internet economy: It unplugged itself entirely from the Internet to try and silence dissent.
Experts say it's unlikely that what's happened in Egypt could happen in the United States because the U.S. has numerous Internet providers and ways of connecting to the Internet. Coordinating a simultaneous shutdown would be a massive undertaking........................"
Control - when government has control it can turn it off. Glad to see it will never happen here - YET! |
Pete Sir,
Just read that on foxnews, AND cell phone service, to boot. Scary thought, because I did not know that Governments could do that...
Come to think of it, am guessing the U.S. Constitution has nothing in it concerning the "right" to online providers/cell phone providers, and so technically Our gov. could do the same???
Hope that Our Embassy staff there is getting prepared...
Note to self: Must break out some of my Grandpa's old morse code hardbacks....and get equipped.....
Hmmmm....
Holly
