Egyptians Connecting To The Internet Via Modem, Fax, Ham Radio

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Despite Egyptian authorities shutting down access to the internet, protesters in Cairo have been able to get online by some creative methods. Check out the slideshow to see how they're doing it.

 

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[pierre F Lherisson]

03:29 AM on 02/02/2011

The current high tech and communication crisis inflicted by the Egyptian government to the protesters in Egypt could happen in any country regardless of their system of government.
People that live in the modern world are no longer self-sufficient and are become increasingly interdependent and dependent on High Techs which in turn make the majority of people vulnerable to merciless control by government and Big Corporations or both.
Sometime, the demarcation line between Government and Big Corporations is fuzzy because they work in tandem in a symbiotic fashion. It is not without reason that Mr. Charles Erwin Wilson, CEO for General Motors then US Secretary of Defense said: “For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.”
Since the government has full control over the communication infrastructure including: electromagnetic spectrum, roads, airports, seaports, water supply and the power grid, when there is crisis in public order, the government will have recourse to martial law and declare a state of national emergency if it deem it appropriate to bring people on their knees to reestablish order or the status quo.

[illutid]

09:31 PM on 01/30/2011

Anyone and everyone try ANCHORFREE.COM to get through countries firewall. It's free and anonymous!!

[Russ Vanover]

03:19 PM on 01/30/2011

I am just worried an extremist Muslim faction is going to fill the vacuum...

[theseusofaustralia]

08:30 AM on 01/31/2011

so they should live in tyranny to quench your fears?

[lornejl 2]

02:08 PM on 01/30/2011

Tell us your secret, I can't make a comment on the main !

[comment from grandpa]

01:38 PM on 01/30/2011

Pay attention America,our time is coming.................

[gomezrules]

11:42 AM on 01/30/2011

All the clowns in this country who want the govt to have absolute control over all aspects of the Internet and other means of communications ought to be monitoring the situation in Egypt!

[Panasit Ch]

12:40 PM on 01/30/2011

And the party who wants government's total control over information, ironically, is the one that want less government control over big companies like insurance, oil, automobile etc etc

[Bobotheclown]

01:47 PM on 01/30/2011

Who are those people exactly? I've never heard anyone say that they want this.

[jo smith456]

08:59 AM on 01/30/2011

and Obama is also thinking of an Internet switch!!! We better think of alternatives, when govt decides to pull the plug on the internet....

[Bobotheclown]

01:55 PM on 01/30/2011

The internet switch was a Chenney idea from the days of the Patriot Act and surveilance of internet traffic without a warrant. How far the Bush administration was able to implement it is unknown since all information related to illegal wiretapping has been supressed by the Bush administration. Since Obama has not deferred any of the other controversial executive powers that Bush created I doubt that Obama has refused the "internet kill switch" either. But the DARPA inspired internet system was designed to make communications so robust and distributed that it could survive nuclear attack. This kind of a system is inherently hard to shut down with a switch. But the Republicans have been working on it for ten years and who knows how far they have gotten by now.

[John Hopper]

03:14 AM on 01/31/2011

Another Beck viewer, imagine that?.....

[jo smith456]

08:57 AM on 01/30/2011

The is-raeli-dominated US ME foreign policy is in crumbling....

[Ukridge]

11:08 AM on 01/30/2011

The new Egyptian gov, will probably be allies with Israel too.

[separatingwheatfromchaff]

08:19 AM on 01/30/2011

Maybe the US should concentrate on what we'll do when all these nations that have been living under our hegemony all these years all finally throw off their shackles.The right wing says we should be in fear if the Muslims take control of their own countries.They've been vocal here at the start but are starting to tone it down since it appears things aren't going back to the old status quo very soon.All I can say is things are getting very interesting and hopefully the US will start to understand we can't run the whole world like it belongs to us.Here's to hoping we haven't completely ruined our chances to get along peacefully with our neighbors.

[Ukridge]

11:10 AM on 01/30/2011

Why is it "shackles"? The protesters really want jobs, and many just a meal. Running off their biggest trade partner is not going to help that. In fact we give them 1.3 billion in aid every year, and provide their kids with a future more than any other nation.

[separatingwheatfromchaff]

11:20 PM on 01/30/2011

The Mubarek regime gets that money,the people are extremely poor.Read a little history.

[theseusofaustralia]

08:33 AM on 01/31/2011

military aid making most. you oppress them more then any nation more like it.

[ABXNOMORE]

08:12 AM on 01/30/2011

More power to them!!!

[Christopher Koulouris]

07:35 AM on 01/30/2011

Ultimately what is at stake is the citizen’s of the mid east ability to garner some economic prosperity and mobility and quash the oppressive divide that has worked to date to engender US and entrenched mid east’s interests. But from the US’s point of view what is really at stake is their ability to retain US hegemony and the sale of a McDonald’s sponsored cheese burger at some future date. How the US reacts to EGYPT will be unconditionally tempered by this fact.

http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2011/01/us-hegemony-and-the-crises-called-egypt/

[Bobotheclown]

02:08 PM on 01/30/2011

All dictatorial countries face chaos and disruption about once a generation because these systems do not have the advantage of a democratic way to transfer power. It has to go to the streets. Sometimes the military is heavy handed and these revolutions are crushed, pushing the revolution underground where it will rise somewhere else. (China) Sometimes the government collapses and is replaced with a new dictatorship that is even more radical than the one that went before it. (Iran) Sometimes the government collapses and is replaced by a moderate government that focuses on correcting some of the problems that inspired the revolution. (Russia) And sometimes a true peoples revolt ends up with a true peoples democracy that will allow all people to have a voice in an improved and more stable country. (South Africa) It is hard to say where Egypt will end up but the US has always been a strong ally and has privided billions of dollars of aid to the country every year. One can presume that most subsequent governments would want to continue that aid and would give the US a large influence in the future of that government. Egypt will probably end up a better, stronger country, after this necessary house cleaning. Lets hope that it wants to maintain its place as the stable center of the region and not come under the sway of the dangerous religious radicals who are also part of the equation in that part of the world.

[957]

07:29 AM on 01/30/2011

those of us who have managed to live without the "internet" for most of our lives and managed to live without having to be "in touch" with someone every minute of the day find this notion of a crisis because of a "internet connection" down laughable.

[separatingwheatfromchaff]

07:59 AM on 01/30/2011

We all managed to live without the Internet or cell phones,or ambulances,heck we even used to not have doctors or hospitals.
But seriously,there is a very good reason we need to stay in touch,do you think the police or army in Egypt could control the people better if the people had no means of communication?What the Internet has done is leveled the playing field in so many ways.Gone are the days when a newscaster said something and it was taken as gospel.We have instant eyewitnesses with video footage broadcast in real time.The authorities can't just lie to us anymore,they will be found out sooner rather than later.I won't even get into the lifesavings and the ability to coordinate protests,or the early alarm of violent police behavior.

[balkan-2]

08:55 AM on 01/30/2011

If the only way of being "informed" is TV or crackling radio like in 1930's we would long be in gulags for the elite.
If they ever shut the internet it is over for us.
Good news is that real productive and intelligent people are among us and useless parasites, like bankers and corrupt polititans, never wanted to know or learn real value skills as long as they could have something for nothing

[alyseven]

10:49 AM on 01/30/2011

He said as he posted on the internet...

[fairwayhill]

06:36 AM on 01/30/2011

Hopefully Jordan and Saudi Arabia will be next to overthrow their US supported dictatorsh­­­ips.

[Bobotheclown]

02:11 PM on 01/30/2011

Jordan yes, but look out for Saudi Arabia, that will be the mother of all revolutions this century.

[avg american]

06:12 AM on 01/30/2011

While the gluttonous richy-rich vacation in Davos deciding the economic fate of the world, Egypt riots.

The avg egyption makes $2 dollars a day and lives in poverty.

Power to the people.

[fairwayhill]

03:38 AM on 01/30/2011

Go Egypt ! throw away the US supported dictatorsh­­ip of Mubarak, open the border with Gaza, and cut out the 2ionists from the Suez CanaI !