Interesting, there now seems to be a trend of middle eastern countries cutting themselves off from the Internet,
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2011/05/iran_plans_to_cut_off_from_the.php I think we will see more of this kind of behavior happening in the next few years, as the web has become a real threat to totalitarian and oppressive governments. -- Daniel Belin On May 28, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Zaid Ali <z...@zaidali.com> wrote: > I am a little skeptic that this fine imposed is because the government truly > believes in Internet freedom. Many factions of the Egyptian government was to > get as much money out of Mubarak as they can and this might be a way to do > just that. What would be interesting is if there is a law passed preventing > any member of the government from cutting off Internet access. > > Zaid > > On May 28, 2011, at 12:23 PM, ML wrote: > >> On 5/28/2011 12:18 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: >>> I remember some discussion of this outage on NANOG, and on what it was >>> costing Egypt. Well, here is >>> an estimate - almost $ 20 million USD / day (which actually sounds low to >>> me). >>> >>> Regards >>> Marshall >>> >>> >>> http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/05/201152811555458677.html >>> >>> An Egyptian court has fined ousted president Hosni Mubarak and former >>> officials more than $90m for cutting off access to internet and mobile >>> phone services during the country's massive protests in January. >>> >>> A court source told the Reuters news agency on Saturday that Mubarak's fine >>> is $34m, former interior minister Habib al-Adly will owe $53m, and former >>> prime minister Ahmed Nazif has a fine of $7m. >>> >>> The fine is to be paid from personal assets... >> >> Can I fine TEDATA for committing VoIP fraud against my network during that >> same time period? >> >> >> >> > >
