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Internet, cell phones down in Egypt
Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Hours ahead of what are expected to be massive displays of anti-government ferment across the world's most populous Arab nation, the internet went dark in parts of Egypt early Friday, and text messaging appeared to be blocked.
Learned a few things from the Mad Mullahs in their Tehran crackdown last year...
According to multiple web services that check whether servers used by specific sites are active, the servers of Egypt's main internet provider were down early Friday. The servers for the Egyptian government's sites and for the U.S. Embassy in Cairo also appeared to be down.

Facebook is aware of reports of service disruption and saw a drop in traffic from Egypt Thursday morning, company spokeswoman Jillian Carroll said in a statement.

Government officials could not be immediately reached to comment on the internet and text message situation.
Because they couldn't be reached...

Posted by: Steve White 2011-01-28
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