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When was this shutdown? my twitter stream has news out of Tripoli 15 seconds ago. [Edit: There IS internet, but he is cutting power of sporadically. Reports

by mahmud 16y ago

When was this shutdown? my twitter stream has news out of Tripoli 15 seconds ago. [Edit: There IS internet, but he is cutting power of sporadically. Reports of his son Saif being shot, and Gaddafis fleeing to Venezuela. Several Libyan ambassadors already resigned. Various military units defected, and sided with the public against the hired mercenaries.

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uvdiv 16y ago
Are those sources reliable? I note that Al Jazeera reports Saif al-Islam making a televised address very recently: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/02/201122111127102872.html http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/02/20112211112... "Early Monday" Libyan time means within last 4 hours; your comment was posted 4 hours ago, so either I screwed up time zones, or the address was pre-recorded, or the reports of his being shot are inaccurate. edit: According to this liveblog the address started around 1:00 AM Libyan time, or 23:00 UTC/GMT: http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/17/live-blog-libya http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/17/live-blog-...
- mahmud 16y ago
  I was in the thick of the confusion, listening to the firehouse. The son is OK but ambassadors have resigned.
csomar 16y ago
It seems that some (hackers?) opened dial-up servers for them in foreign countries. Some pages are giving these numbers and the login to connect.
- mahmud 16y ago
  Not any hackers, the Dutch ISP xs4all is givin away free dialup, others too (I even tweeted one such yesterday) But, no, a good chunk of Tripoli is online. Benghazi is devastated but victorious. FWIW, Gaddafi is on his way out :-) Few more days (maybe hours!)
  - stcredzero 16y ago
    Basically, if you've reached the point of cutting of internet, you've reached the point where you're going to be killing your own populace to hold on. This thought puts the proposed US Internet Shutoff switch in a new light for me.
    - electromagnetic 16y ago
      > This thought puts the proposed US Internet Shutoff switch in a new light for me. I'm glad, this is exactly the light I saw it in in the beginning. A 'shutoff' for any form of communication is always a form of supreme oppression. Being able to silence peoples objections just means they're going to stop shouting and tweeting, and start bashing the message into your skull until you get the point that they don't like you.
motters 16y ago
Google transparency traffic also suggests that the shutdowns have been sporadic. Maybe it's a kind of internet curfew.

by mahmud 16y ago

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uvdiv 16y ago

Are those sources reliable? I note that Al Jazeera reports Saif al-Islam making a televised address very recently: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/02/201122111127102872.html http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/02/20112211112... "Early Monday" Libyan time means within last 4 hours; your comment was posted 4 hours ago, so either I screwed up time zones, or the address was pre-recorded, or the reports of his being shot are inaccurate. edit: According to this liveblog the address started around 1:00 AM Libyan time, or 23:00 UTC/GMT: http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/17/live-blog-libya http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/17/live-blog-...

mahmud 16y ago
I was in the thick of the confusion, listening to the firehouse. The son is OK but ambassadors have resigned.

csomar 16y ago

It seems that some (hackers?) opened dial-up servers for them in foreign countries. Some pages are giving these numbers and the login to connect.

mahmud 16y ago
Not any hackers, the Dutch ISP xs4all is givin away free dialup, others too (I even tweeted one such yesterday) But, no, a good chunk of Tripoli is online. Benghazi is devastated but victorious. FWIW, Gaddafi is on his way out :-) Few more days (maybe hours!)
- stcredzero 16y ago
  Basically, if you've reached the point of cutting of internet, you've reached the point where you're going to be killing your own populace to hold on. This thought puts the proposed US Internet Shutoff switch in a new light for me.
  - electromagnetic 16y ago
    > This thought puts the proposed US Internet Shutoff switch in a new light for me. I'm glad, this is exactly the light I saw it in in the beginning. A 'shutoff' for any form of communication is always a form of supreme oppression. Being able to silence peoples objections just means they're going to stop shouting and tweeting, and start bashing the message into your skull until you get the point that they don't like you.

motters 16y ago

Google transparency traffic also suggests that the shutdowns have been sporadic. Maybe it's a kind of internet curfew.