{"id":4987,"date":"2011-02-19T16:56:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T15:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4987"},"modified":"2011-02-19T16:58:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T15:58:42","slug":"can-a-nation-be-cut-off-from-the-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4987","title":{"rendered":"Can a nation be cut off from the Net?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we had any doubt about this, the answer has come from a little-known feature of the recent revolution in Egypt. As explained in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/16\/technology\/16internet.html?_r=2&amp;hp\">this article<\/a> in the &#8220;New York Times&#8221;, it seems that, in the space of merely an hour or so, Egypt was effectively cut off from the global Internet and that this was the situation for around five days.<\/p>\n<p>It is still not clear exactly how it was done, but that it was done- and so easily and so comprehensively &#8211; is a real cause for concern for those of us who see the Net as a liberating force that was assumed to be difficult for repressive regime to control.<\/p>\n<p>My latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Connected.html#Review65\">Internet column<\/a> &#8211; written before the success of the Egyptian revolution &#8211; looks at the opportunities for, and limitations of, social and political activism on the Net. And it is not just activists who should be thinking about these things; the greater use of cloud computing will put many business-critical applications at risk of local Net disruption from whatever cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we had any doubt about this, the answer has come from a little-known feature of the recent revolution in Egypt. As explained in this article in the &#8220;New York Times&#8221;, it seems that, in the space of merely an hour or so, Egypt was effectively cut off from the global Internet and that this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4990,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions\/4990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}