I'm sad to say this, but they are cutting off internet/phones in Egypt to prepare a crackdown

[Selatius]

They are basically copying what the ruling regime in Iran did when the people discovered that they were voting in a totally rigged election. We all know what happened inside Iran: Bloodbath. People were using Facebook/Twitter to coordinate resistance against the police/military, but with those networks cut-off, it made it easier for the regime to crush them with many lives lost.

I fear this is what will happen to the protesters in Egypt. The worst thing about it is that Mubarak is "our dictator."

[OneGrassRoot]

1. I'm slightly encouraged by this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4713590

[dipsydoodle]

2. They can't shut it all down

Their banks and stock exchange would cease to function. There seem to be plenty of back doors.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%23Jan25+site:twitter.com&tbs=mbl:1&tbo=1&num=100&hl=en&sa=G&biw=1280&bih=705&ei=_MdATZzzH8KVcYGg_Y0C&ved=0CF0QsQcwBQ

Thank turborama for that link.

[OneGrassRoot]

3. Oh hell, I have so much to learn. Cool link! n/t

[dipsydoodle]

4. Like I said

thank DU'er Turborama for that one.

I've been watching it since he posted it earlier.

[JCMach1]

5. They cut access to DNS servers apparently...

[Sherman A1]

6. No they can't shut everything down & I suspect there will be

a crackdown, but as one comment on the link pointed out "there have been successful events before the internet". So we will see.

[xchrom]

7. they're not intimidated yet.

and they may figure 'what the hell' -- it's been brutal all these years -- so it doesn't matter.

[Selatius]

8. Oh, these Egyptians seem to still have a lot of fight in them. The only question is Mubarak.

If he is as stubborn as some say he is, he isn't going to back down, and that could get problematic.

[xchrom]

9. the egyptian street sees mubarak as problematic and brutal any way.

the lock down crony economics may have the street feeling 'oh well -- nothing to lose'.

[Selatius]

10. I hope the Egyptians get their chance at self-determination, and if...

it gets down to the point where Mubarak puts the army and the tanks on the streets and copies the "Chinese solution," well, what happens will happen. I hope it doesn't end up like China 1989 with the regime winning and the protesters losing.