Renesys confirms that the 13 globally routed Libyan network prefixes were withdrawn at 23:18 GMT (Friday night, 1:18am Saturday local time), and Libya is off the Internet.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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This is just hilarious.
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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.
Overall I like him. He made some mistakes but he was a hell of a lot better than Batista.
also :P
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.