Internet Shut Down Amid Egypt Protests; Social Outcry Strengthens
Activist Post
Clashes between protesters and authorities in the world's most populous Arab nation have reached even higher levels with reports that the servers of Egypt's main Internet provider were down.
This Internet restriction seems to be in response to the massive growth of social networking and the direct impact it has had on mobilization against "a regime that is not listening, is not acting," according to opposition leader, and Nobel Peace laureate, Mohamed ElBaradei.
Friday is set to intensify as a groundswell of support for social change has been charted by social media websites such as Twitter and Facebook, which showed exponentially increased traffic before revealing a sharp decrease that indicated the cutoff...
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