After five days with no access to the Internet, Egyptians are finally online again and back to tweeting and blogging live updates from the streets of Cairo. But you may still be wondering how the government was able to shut down Egyptians’ access to the Internet. The answer has more to do with politics than technology. There’s no on/off switch for the Internet, no circuit to short or plug to pull. It appears as though someone from the government simply called each of the country’s handful of Internet service providers, or ISPs, and ordered them to shut down.
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:56:10 +0000
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