Egypt: A Nation Forced Offline (January 25th, 2011 Protests)

The Egyptian government has taken an unprecedented action, shutting down nearly all Internet and cellular access into an out of the country. Egypt did not just put up a firewall for its 80 million citizens. It has forced networks completely offline. The only Internet activity remaining is that of the Egyptian stock exchange and some government departments.

Written by: Brittany Darwell http://www.brittanydarwell.com
Animation and Music by: Michael Marantz http://www.michaelmarantz.com

Learn more.

Watch live coverage:
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/?foo=bar

Excellent background information:
Mother Jones: What's Happening in Egypt
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/01/whats-happening-egypt-explained

More details about the communications shutdown:
Egypt Leaves the Internet
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml
WSJ: Egypt Shuts Down Internet, Cellphone Services
http://on.wsj.com/eMeukH

More about democracy and freedom in Egypt:
Egypt Global Integrity Report
http://report.globalintegrity.org/Egypt/2008
Forbes: Opposition Claims Massive Fraud in Egypt Electoral Poll
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/afx/2005/09/08/afx2212162.html
Huffington Post: Egypt Targeting Reporters: Press Freedom Group
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/26/egypt-targeting-reporters_n_814521.html

Updates from Cairo:
The Arabist
http://twitter.com/arabist
CNN's Ben Wedeman
http://twitter.com/bencnn

Other helpful sources for making this video:
Bloomberg: Egypt Internet Down, Police Counterterror Unit Up
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-27/egypt-s-protests-pose-threat-for-reg...
Reuters: Egypt Unrest Rages on, Biggest Protests Planned
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70O3UW20110128?pageNumber=2
CNN: Egypt's Mubarak Faces Toughest Challenge Yet
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/01/27/egypt.mubarak/

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[tk4227]

People don't at ALL realize how well we have it here in America. For all you big government liberal BIGOTS, see what happens when government gets too big??!! This should be a wake up call to all Americans, and the rest of the world.

[samov222]

The Egyptians impressed the world by putting on one the most civilized revoultion ever. We saw millions of peacefull demonstrators take to the streets for 18 days. We saw doctors volunteering to assisst with people injured by riot police.

The problem is Jews in the US government/media support those dictators. The government of the US only removes dictators that they don't like, any more.

The people of those countries are the ones that pay the price. That also leads to terrorism against US.

[hotklips]

Egypt forever <3

[yassergalal27]

@semsema710 lol iam not rushing it, but really if u say so  i wish it became ture so soon maybe when they make revolution we get more closer and know each other more and they will know who is the real friend and who is the fake i feel if it happen will start in uk say alot of them complaining and wish they make like us

[semsema710]

@yassergalal27 When u say "that bad" for sure it aint as bad as Egypt was. Some people are very angry, others are going along with life.. but I believe there will be a time where enough is enough! Don't forget it took us Egyptians for example 30 years to revolt, matesta3gelsh 3ala rez2ak :)

[yassergalal27]

@semsema710 well then if the situation so bad there as u say why they didnot move yet ? what they wait for ? i think its just about its not so perfect there and ppl must know it will never be perfect but at least u there sure that president dont steal ur money and dont work against his ppl

[semsema710]

@yassergalal27 It's not heaven, thats only wot u guys assume it is. For example, British people want to make protests for the cuts in services they are reinforcing in the UK. In fact, the mediia here has really reduced the updates in news about the incidents going on in Egypt, Libya and the rest of the Arab world, probably forced to actually, in order not to trigger such a revolution here.

Thumbsup to the creator of this video! I just came across it, and loved it! :)

[yassergalal27]

i cant belive that alot of ppl in usa and canda and uk want make revolution??? how come ??? we in egypt always thought this countires is valley of dimocray?? some ppl even say its like heaven there, i know its not prefect but soooo much better than here at least u can elect ur president and can demonstrate as u want

[5416336bc]

@samov222 well said. I agree with you. Usa probably wants to react but since there are so many Jews, what can we do? We just sit back and watch the Egyptian as it gets recorded down to history. That's government for ya.