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Libya Shuts Down Internet, LOL!

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edited February 2011 in Spurious Generalities
Renesys confirms that the 13 globally routed Libyan network prefixes were withdrawn at 23:18 GMT (Friday night, 1:18am Saturday local time), and Libya is off the Internet. One Libyan route originated by Telecom Italia directly is still BGP-reachable, but inbound traceroutes appear to die in Palermo. A minority of our peers report some surviving paths through the peering connection between Level3 and Telecom Italia, but traceroutes into those prefixes fail, suggesting that the Libyan cutoff is complete.

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Qaddafi's Libya is engaging in the strategy that Mubarak's Egypt used to little effect, clearly hoping for a radically different outcome.

On January 27, as an attempt to interfere with protester communications with each other and with the outside world, Egypt shut down its Internet connections.

However, Telecomix has already provided dial-up access for Libyans.

Libya has been wracked by iits #feb17 protests for several days, with 84 people killed by security forces, according to Human Rights Watch.

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  • MayberryMayberry Regular
    edited February 2011
    Libya has internet?
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  • SujiSuji New Arrival
    edited February 2011
    Sounds like Europe!
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  • UnknownUnknown
    edited February 2011
    I'm so glad I don't live in a shithole. I wouldn't mind if the internet died for everyone - the first week would SUCK but after that, things might be cooler. Who knows.
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  • SlartibartfastSlartibartfast Global Moderator -__-
    edited February 2011
    Ghaddafi is simply batshit insane. Have you heard him speak?

    He advocates that Muslim nations change their calender based on the death of Muhammad. His personal guards are entirely female. He's followed around by a blonde Ukrainian "nurse". His solution to the Palestinian/Israeli issue is creating a new country called "Israelistine". When he's abroad he insists on living in a tent and meeting Heads of State in it. His son has been arrested for beating up a maid in Switzerland and in "retaliation" they refuse to do business with the swiss.
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  • SujiSuji New Arrival
    edited February 2011
    He sounds like a perverted man that would do it in the middle street then say that he has diplomatic immunity and they can't arrest him for public indecency. Either that or a man that thinks he can get whatever he wants and when he wants it.
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  • DirtySanchezDirtySanchez Regular
    edited February 2011
    Ghaddafi is a hero who has tried to bring socialism to the Arab world. His support of islam sucks but over all he is a good leader and I hope he crushes the protesters with an iron fist.
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  • SlartibartfastSlartibartfast Global Moderator -__-
    edited February 2011
    ^^^^^^^^^^^ What do you think of Castro? Genuine question.
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  • DirtySanchezDirtySanchez Regular
    edited February 2011
    Slartibartfast wrote: »
    ^^^^^^^^^^^ What do you think of Castro? Genuine question.

    Overall I like him. He made some mistakes but he was a hell of a lot better than Batista.
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  • buddhabuddha Regular
    edited February 2011
    Slartibartfast wrote: »
    Ghaddafi is simply batshit insane. Have you heard him speak? Have you? Other than what's on tv?

    His personal guards are entirely female. They are also all virgins, you know why? That way they can focus on their job, and not men.
    . His solution to the Palestinian/Israeli issue is creating a new country called "Israelistine". Remember Hitler? there are worse solutions
    When he's abroad he insists on living in a tent and meeting Heads of State in it.It's the way he grew up, deal with it. His son has been arrested for beating up a maid in Switzerland and in "retaliation" they refuse to do business with the swiss.I'm sure she was a total bitch and deserved both black eyes

    also :P
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  • Darth BeaverDarth Beaver Meine Ehre heißt Treue
    edited February 2011
    DirtySanchez wrote: »
    Overall I like him. He made some mistakes but he was a hell of a lot better than Batista.

    Why don't you ask a native Cuban old enough to remember who was better? Hell, just go to Miami and ask for that matter.
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  • kfc v lotkfc v lot Regular
    edited February 2011
    I think his solution to the whole Israel Palestine malarkey is actually quite good if not amusing.. Then again wasn't it all one country until the Jews fought a little guerilla war and we (Britain) just decided we couldn't be arsed with it and went home?
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