{"id":24,"date":"2011-02-01T04:10:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T04:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2011-03-19T04:12:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T04:12:35","slug":"how-egypts-government-choked-off-the-countrys-internet-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2011\/02\/how-egypts-government-choked-off-the-countrys-internet-access\/","title":{"rendered":"How Egypt&#8217;s government choked off the country&#8217;s internet access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire network firm <strong>Renesys<\/strong> reveals       their research (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.renesys.com\/tech\/presentations\/pdf\/nanog-51-Egypt-Gone.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">pdf<\/a>)       on how Egypt&#8217;s government choked off the country&#8217;s internet access via       its state-owned data centers. Meanwhile, a Columbia law professor named       Eben Moglen (of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fsf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Free       Software Foundation<\/a>)       launches the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomboxfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">FreedomBox       Foundation<\/a>, to ensure one       day that people fighting for their freedom do not have their voices silenced       by corporate\/state-controlled businesses. The <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/Plug_computer\" target=\"_blank\">Plug       computer<\/a> was built to distribute the hardware infrastructure of the       internet to everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire network firm Renesys reveals their research (pdf) on how Egypt&#8217;s government choked off the country&#8217;s internet access via its state-owned data centers. Meanwhile, a Columbia law professor named Eben Moglen (of the Free Software Foundation) launches the FreedomBox Foundation, to ensure one day that people fighting for their freedom do not have their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2011\/02\/how-egypts-government-choked-off-the-countrys-internet-access\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Egypt&#8217;s government choked off the country&#8217;s internet access&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p415hC-o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}