[Foundation-l] Egypt: Great Firewall of China Coming Soon

Thu Jun 5 05:05:30 UTC 2008

In light of Wikimania 2008, this might be of interest.

-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/06/04/egypt-great-firewall-of-china-coming-soon/

Egyptian bloggers have one hand on their keyboard and another on their
hearts. Following a recent crackdown on bloggers and online activists
following the April 6 unrest, some are now predicting the worse is yet
to come.

[...]

You know what, I am getting more and more confident now, that the
Government's next move will be filtering the Internet. I already had
similar suspicions a long while ago, but now I am really afraid that
they may start filtering the Internet here in Egypt very soon, they
may block sites such as Facebook, because what's said that the April
6th General Strike was organized there. They may also block YouTube,
and who knows what will they block next.

Seems that the Great Firewall of China is on its way to Egypt.