danielg's posterous

Egyptian Internet shutdown - network level data

http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml

Isn't the government doing tremendous damage to its economy without actually stopping any protests/revolutions?  I mean, I'm pretty sure there were plenty of protests and revolutions before the Internet was invented.  I must be missing something here.

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