Rep. David Wu urged Western communications companies to defy orders from Egypt's government

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Rep. David Wu (D-Ore.) urged Western communications companies to defy orders from Egypt's government to shut down their services.
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/141013-house-dem-calls-on-western-companies-to-do-the-right-thing-and-defy-egyptian-orders

Rep. David Wu (D-Ore.) urged Western communications companies to defy orders from Egypt's government to shut down their services.

The comments came during a day of violent protests and a sweeping attempt to by the Egyptian government to block Internet services, a move analysts are calling "unprecedented in Internet history."

Wu, an outspoken opponent of online censorship and the co-founder of the Internet freedom caucus, rejected the idea that Western companies should comply with orders from Egypt's government.

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Wu said he could understand why Egyptian companies would comply, but that western firms who follow the orders are "abetting suppression and repression."

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1. If they do

Mubarak will just nationalize them. That's a common tactic in that part of the world.