[ NNSquad ] Libya Internet cut off

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Libya Internet cut off

http://j.mp/iaB4Sg  (AP / MSNBC)

    "Several days into Egypt's largely nonviolent protest, the government
     there shut down Internet access for almost a week. Anti-government
     protesters there had been using social-media services such as Facebook
     and Twitter to organize and share personal experiences of the unrest.
     That wasn't the case in Libya, a country where relatively few people
     have Internet access. Only about 6 percent of Libyans have Internet
     access in the home or in public places, such as Internet cafes,
     according to the research group OpenNet Initiative. That compares with
     24 percent of Egyptians and 81 percent of people in the U.S.,
     according to OpenNet."

--Lauren--
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