Egypt Internet Case Can not Stop the mass demonstrations - Wired News

arrested hundreds of people in a way to pray: In Cairo, al-Jazeera captured this image. This is one of many scenes around Egypt today, countless people in the streets in anger one day the police retaliated and demand an end to the dictatorship of 30 years of Hosni Mubarak.

Why is it important? Because it shows that the protests are growing - despite the closure of the Egyptian government Internet access and mobile communications.

The last four days worth of protests in Egypt, has inspired 14 by those who overthrew the government of Tunisia on social media in January have been accelerated. # Jan25 Hashtag given the rebellion without a leader is a tool of internal organization and global communication to achieve. More surprising, it should not mean that the Mubarak regime has responded by ordering the withdrawal of access over 3500 channels Border Gateway Protocol in the Egyptian service, was arrested about 88 percent of the Internet zone, BGPMon company network.

But the so-called "Day of Wrath" is uninterrupted. On Al-Jazeera a few minutes said an official from Mubarak's National Democratic Party of the insurgency "unprecedented" and acknowledged that the government is a "non-traditional way to cope with this, "including" measures against corruption, against poverty needs. .. [to] a greater freedom. "He said all fire while police and army tear gas demonstrators.

Of course, the tool off-line network protesters: the mosques. Protests were planned for Friday in Egypt to collect on the ability of the religious establishment, organize, lead and harness large groups of people, with all the legitimacy that the command mosques. If the government continues to close the communication, it is an open question of whether the demonstrators their analog organizational dynamics can be maintained.

But perhaps not something that government can do. "It's a matter of time before the Internet to Egypt," said Sheriff Mansour of Freedom Watch. "The government must be for [the economy] to be used for investment. But you have to be taken seriously so it does not happen again."

Image: Al-Jazeera

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