I don't know what to think, haven't a deep enough understanding of Egypt to know what to think. I'm rather blown away by all of it.
All of it.
How do you turn off the Internet?
Al Jazeera's coverage is vital. Biased, too? Sure, almost certainly. But then, who are we Americans to judge someone else's biased media, really? Al Jazeera's livestream is here.
And (paging Mr. Peretz) it turns out that Arabs value each other and community and all of the things we value. This item brought a tear to my eye. Also this one.
Mubarek's been our ally, but we've also pumped millions into pro-democracy groups over there; so while the situation is fraught, it seems to be what we asked for, ultimately. And no, I'm not worried about the Muslim Brotherhood. Mubarek and John Bolton are worried about the Muslim Brotherhood, which tells me there are more important things happening.
Yemen, now Yemen is scary. Egypt? I don't know what to think.
Hope everyone is ok, and that the outcome doesn't hurt more than the status quo.
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If you control the links in and out, you can make things beyond those links physically unreachable.
Inside Egypt, those who know enough might still be able to communicate with each other locally, but infrastructural kinds of things (like facebook and twitter) would be missing. And depending how much they can control the ISPs, they can possibly even prevent relatively local communication.
Btw, Lieberman wants to set up such capabilities for the US president, as well:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20029302-501465.html
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2376888,00.asp
Only for emergencies. And of course no president would ever abuse it, I'm sure.
27 years late, you might say, but this newfangled technology can be tricky...
"Mubarek and John Bolton are worried about the Muslim Brotherhood, which tells me there are more important things happening."
Maybe I'm too used to Facebook: I just wanted to like this.
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