"Day of Revolution" in Egypt

[hanibal]

Re: “Day of Revolution” in Egypt

@mAd_ScIeNtIsT

No we don’t. We chose our leaders. We will have a fair opportunity to replace them at the next scheduled election, in about 3 years.

Countries like Tunisia and Egypt need revolutions because they never get a chance to change leadership.

ditto,

we know that we are going to see the back of PPP in next election, which is due latest by 2013, then we can vote for some one else, most probably PMLN, and after 5 years of their rule, surely Pakistan would get rid of both PPP and PMLN (provided PMLN fails as PPP had failed) and new leadership from the people would emerge…

back to topic, latest news from Egypt shows that the networking sites has been blocked by the govt. as a measure to stop the protest, will this work or have this kind of tactics have ever worked? looks like they have lost it all…

http://en.news.maktoob.com/20090000552228/Twitter_inaccessible_in_Egypt_amid_unrest_/Article.htm

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  SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter's website was inaccessible in Egypt on Tuesday, in an apparent move to thwart protesters using the social network in a campaign to oust President Hosni Mubarak.

The US-based microblogging service that allows people to use mobile phones and computers to broadcast short text messages was out of service in Egypt, according to the herdict.org tracking website.

A Twitter spokesman declined to comment on what was causing the service outage in Egypt but referred AFP to herdict.org, a project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

“We’re not the experts on how Twitter is being used in highly developing situations 1000s of miles from our comfortable HQ in SF,” Twitter said in a message. “The experts are those using Twitter on the ground and those coordinating with them around the world.”

A herdict.org spokeswoman said the site had received a “handful of reports” from users across different Internet service providers in Egypt saying they had been unable to reach Twitter.

“We can’t confirm that these reports are a result of intentional blocking, and Vodafone Egypt denies that they have blocked it,” she said.

“From what we’ve heard from contacts on the ground, Egyptians are still utilizing the Twitter service via SMS and third-party apps.”

Twitter and Facebook were among Internet social networking services reportedly being used by protesters to share information and coordinate activities.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across Egypt, facing down a massive police presence to demand the ouster of Mubarak in protests inspired by Tunisia’s popular uprising.

Two protesters died in the port city of Suez in clashes between police and demonstrators and a policeman died from his wounds in Cairo, officials said.

The protests were considered the largest and most significant since riots over bread subsidies shook the Arab world’s most populous nation in 1977.

The protest, called by the pro-democracy youth group the April 6 Movement, coincided with a national holiday to mark Police Day.