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Egypt Cuts All Internet Connections

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simoom1/27/2011 8:30:43 pm PST

re: #18 Killgore Trout

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A friend in Cairo: “The government can take away my freedom, but if they take away my internet porn, they’re going down.”

That tweet may be tongue-in-cheek, but there may be some truth as well. If you take a youthful population, where constant use of the internet has been interwoven into the lives of the more affluent, and take away their access… well, you’ve now gone and disrupted their daily routines, and likely made a heck of a lot of folks who weren’t participating in the protests extremely frustrated and angry…