In Cairo, the Web has gone as silent as a Sphinx. Protestors who've been using Twitter, Facebook, and email to organize street demonstrations against the 30-year regime of Hosni Mubarak are now up the Nile without a dial tone.
Mobile providers like UK based Vodafone were also ordered to stop data services to Egyptian customers, cutting off another possible route to the internet.
Now, some 20 million Egyptians have been cut off -- making it the largest instance of a modern country withdrawing entirely from the Net.
Naturally, the rest of the Web sees this as a call to arms, as well they should.
Mobile providers like UK based Vodafone were also ordered to stop data services to Egyptian customers, cutting off another possible route to the internet.
Now, some 20 million Egyptians have been cut off -- making it the largest instance of a modern country withdrawing entirely from the Net.
Naturally, the rest of the Web sees this as a call to arms, as well they should.
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