What's on in Lybia

Media News - Monday, February 21, 2011
Libya goes offline as internet blockades continue across region
Muktidooth appreciate such way only to prevent and out influence from country outside!!!


Internet services in Libya have reportedly been stopped and those in Bahrain severely restricted as their respective governments battle to clamp down on civil unrest by removing the main means for protestors to communicate and organise themselves. Network security firm Arbor Networks reportedly noted that Libya “abruptly disconnected” from the internet at around midnight on Friday as protests against leader Moamer Kadhafi continued into their fifth day. According to AFP, Libyan authorities have killed more than 80 anti-regime protesters as part of the brutal crackdown. Meanwhile, in Bahrain, Arbor Networks noted a decline in traffic of about 20 per cent from Monday, around the same time that protests flared up demanding governmental reforms. The actions again highlight the increasing role the web plays in nurturing and facilitating democratic protests and the determination of the authorities in question to remain in power. In what was an unprecedented step, the Egyptian government cut all internet services including fixed line and mobile services in the country at the end of January after protestors gathered demanding the resignation of leader Hosni Mubarak. ISPs were allowed to go back online a few days later, but the internet blockade did not succeed in quelling the protests, with Mubarak eventually forced to resign. (V3.co.uk)

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