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Believe it or not, this is an actual sentence in the feature: President Obama called on Egypt to turn the Internet back on Friday.

1 posted on 01/29/2011 12:50:29 PM PST by righttackle44

To: righttackle44

I wonder if the US military has the capability to provide satellite or UAV routers that would keep the internet open, despite the local government’s wishes.

2 posted on 01/29/2011 12:52:19 PM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)

4 posted on 01/29/2011 12:53:54 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")

To: righttackle44

Obama wants authority to do the same thing in the USA.

5 posted on 01/29/2011 12:54:07 PM PST by Iron Munro (Liberalism is nothing more than childlike emotionalism applied to adult issues.)

To: righttackle44

I don't know how many towers there are but I'd say the towers were sabotaged. If they can't talk to each other...it's all over.

Can you hear me now?? NOPE!!

6 posted on 01/29/2011 12:58:13 PM PST by Sacajaweau

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President Obama called on Egypt to turn the Internet back on Friday.

He's using Egypt as an example and is taking notes on marital law and shutting down the web. Wake up folks, this is coming soon to a computer near you.

12 posted on 01/29/2011 1:15:47 PM PST by bgill (Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)

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13 posted on 01/29/2011 1:21:18 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))

To: righttackle44

I like what Leno said last night, “ They just switched everyone to T-Mobile.”

14 posted on 01/29/2011 1:49:24 PM PST by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.....Eagle Scout since Sep 9, 1970)

To: righttackle44

From the US:
Cisco. Nortel. Juniper. Secure Computing.

From Germany:
Siemens.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,162781,00.html

http://en.rsf.org/egypt-internet-a-weapon-of-mass-06-04-2009,30765.html

European Parliament condemns ethical breaches by Internet sector companies
Published on Thursday 6 July 2006. Mis a jour le Thursday 25 January 2007.
http://en.rsf.org/european-union-european-parliament-condemns-06-07-2006,18223.html

Reporters Without Borders hailed a resolution on online free expression that was passed today by the European Parliament and said it hoped the European Commission and EU member states would heed its recommendations.

The resolution criticises Internet sector companies that cooperate with repressive regimes and names several US companies (Yahoo !, Google, Microsoft and Cisco Systems) and European ones (Telecom Italia and France Telecom) that do so.

15 posted on 01/29/2011 3:23:27 PM PST by JerseyHighlander (p.s. The word 'bloggers' is not in the freerepublic spellcheck dictionary?!)

To: righttackle44

We all need to contact our ISPs and demand that they not obey an order to shut down.

17 posted on 01/29/2011 8:13:36 PM PST by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty too! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)

To: righttackle44

Is it really relevant 20min or 2hrs or 2sec? You can't get to your money, better have some cash on hand.
Ever heard: I can't help you right now, our computers are down.
And then you walk to the closest Banking branch, all the doors a locked due to electronic default shutdown, you might get in and you will hear the same: our computers are down, can't process Xfers. You do not want to be around when this occurs.

27 posted on 01/30/2011 2:12:24 PM PST by Koracan

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