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# First Egypt turned it off, now Libya goes dark.....


Libya blocks internet

(I helped save b3ta! gingerbenji wrote a book http://goo.gl/8UiGjd, Sat 19 Feb 2011, 9:01, archived)
# Someone left his face out in the rain
edit: also, wasn't the idea of the internet that it would remain as a way of communicating during times of crisis, war and natural disaster, not that it could be switched on and off at the whims of a melty-faced goat rapist?
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Sat 19 Feb 2011, 9:37, archived)
# I don't think that I can take it...
'Cause it took so long to spang it
And I'll never have that photoshop again
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(I helped save b3ta! Wobbly Bloke Hello, did I miss anything on, Sat 19 Feb 2011, 9:55, archived)
# ooohhh noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Sat 19 Feb 2011, 9:57, archived)
# I love it, oh yeah...
Wait, wrong song, right?
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 19 Feb 2011, 10:01, archived)
# I suspect perhaps idea emerged in Iraq
shutting down communications etc old stuff tho
(macroscian (1 like), Sat 19 Feb 2011, 10:07, archived)
# yup
there's british and US laws going back to the 1920s and 30s relating to telecoms and radio[citation needed, but i remember reading this recently], this is just more of the same principle applied to the intertubbies

lybians, lybians, a woman takes another for a lover
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Sat 19 Feb 2011, 10:21, archived)
# Cutting all GPS comms was very sneaky
turns out the system was US military based...gave people a scare even here in lil Sweden =)

EDIT peoplemilitary personnel
(macroscian (1 like), Sat 19 Feb 2011, 10:36, archived)
# His face
is full of FUUUUUUCK!
(I helped save b3ta! RedHouse over yonder, Sat 19 Feb 2011, 16:01, archived)
# Like some Egyptian said the other week
if you want your people to stay at home and do nothing, is it really wise to turn the internet off?
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Sat 19 Feb 2011, 11:52, archived)