Wednesday, January 26, 2011

The Mubarak government is preventing access to the short message service Twitter in Egypt.

The Mubarak government is preventing access to the short message service Twitter in Egypt. Background seems to be the concern, digital instant messages as before could lead Tunisia to the fact that the protest in the country to a coordinated movement grows.  The Egyptian government is facing massive protests - and tried every means to contain the unrest in the country.

Now accumulate reports that already since Tuesday afternoon, access to the Internet short message service Twitter blocked. According to information from Twitter, the service since Tuesday 16 European time clock is the country virtually inaccessible. In some cases succeed and continue to appear from the terms, which led to conflicting reports on the closure.

This was apparently because the closure of the service at the parastatal, formerly state-owned telecommunications company Telecom Egypt (TE branch respectively its Internet Data) but was faster than in the private sector competition, on the other hand, not entirely. Meanwhile, the run Herdict service of the U.S.

Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the world gathers reports of closures and the Web documents, messages on an ongoing basis, confirming the continued closure of the service. According Herdict it is the 43rd Time that Twitter in Egypt temporarily not available. Other communications tools and access to social media sites are in Egypt but so far remains achievable.

As noted in Tunisia such a digital communication channels a significant role in the organization, coordination and national publication of the current protests is attributed to the government. Critics though, it's that the media here the role of so-called new media at the expense of established communication channels such as telephony and SMS as important disproportionately represented.

But that it just as a gazette in situations where the media do not report more freely, have enormous importance is beyond question. For example, blogs and Facebook pages have been established in Egypt in recent days as a media platform of protesting against the public. Fully openly call individuals and groups here to demonstrate and to revolt on.

Thus the global protests on Tuesday, four demonstrators lost their lives, coordinated through a Facebook group called "Revolution Day against torture, poverty, corruption and unemployment" was. "We are as many as in Tunisia," it said in a statement there, "Tens of thousands have flocked to the streets and have demanded their right - to the retreat of the President and his flight from the country." Protests also followed the time being suffocated on Wednesday appropriate calls: "Do not go to work, does not go to school.

Let us all hand in hand for our Egypt take to the streets, "one activist wrote on Facebook." We will be millions, "it said. This has the Mubarak regime so far prevented a demonstration ban and the Egyptian police force with an unprecedented array. Should there be any new protests would proceed against the security forces targeted an Interior Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday: "No one will be allowed to foment rebellion, to hold protest meetings or to organize demonstrations.

. If someone does not stick to it, then immediately initiated legal measures and added investigations of the participants' reasons for the country-wide dissatisfaction in the - since 1981, Hosni Mubarak ruled authoritarian -. Egypt face much the same as in Tunisia, where was the self-combustion of a unemployed university graduates, a protest movement initiated that had swept the 1987 ruling with some dictatorial Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali from office and expelled from the country.

has since then in several Maghreb countries and now in place in Egypt, protests against the governments . They are not unusual in Egypt, but new is the large number of participants and the quality of the logistical coordination that runs largely through the Internet and telecommunications media.

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