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In case you missed it: in the wake of recent events in Tunisia, Egypt has been experiencing a massive wave of protests against its ruling regime, fueled and organized to a significant degree via social media and modern telecoms. Probably having learned the wrong lessons from the impact of the internet on unrest and protests against authoritarian/autocratic regimes in Iran and now Tunisia, Egypt’ has decided to go with what I guess we’ll have to call the Luddite Gambit strategy for clamping down on protests and civil unrest in the Twitter age: they’ve shut off the internet. All of it. Well, almost all of it. ZDNet’s Steven Vaughan-Nichols writes: First, Egypt blocked social networks like Facebook and Twitter. I had no trouble … More >>