Libya is shutting down their Internet

[Stinky The Clown]

Libya Begins Internet Shutdown -- Will Bit.ly Be Affected?

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Friday, February 18, 2011

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In response to rising anti-government protests in Libya, leaders have started to cut off citizens' access to Facebook and other Internet sites.

The folks over at Center Networks pose an interesting question: what happens to all those companies that have no business in Libya but use the .ly suffix in their domain names?

Link here (SF Chronicle)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/02/18/businessinsider-libya-begins-internet-shutdown-will-bitly-be-affected-2011-2.DTL

[Zoeisright]

1. When you're on the side shutting down communication, you're on the wrong side.

I don't know why these tyrants think they can stay in power forever. No one can. Or ever has.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Colonel enjoy your exile

it is coming. I expected Bahrain to fall before Libya, I will take Libya.

[EFerrari]

3. From the stuff I've scanned, Facebook has been subject to "outages"

there for a year.

Early this morning, people were being advised to use Tunisian and Eygptian sim cards, depending on their location. Pretty smart.

Also, the protesters have taken over a big radio station and it's reported that they are broadcasting on line:

pressfreedom CPJ
Protesters in #Benghazi took over state radio station and are broadcasting live online #Libya #Feb17 http://bit.ly/gEUJP2
25 minutes ago

Gaddafi has brought in mercenaries because he couldn't count on his own people firing on their neighbors. I don't know how he can pull off a repression big enough to stop put out this fire, though.

[madmax]

4. When will our government have the kill switch?

We should worry. Yes.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. They're working hard on it

Y'ever wonder if the shut down by our pal Hosni was a test our guys had a hand in?