Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.
Posted on 01/29/2011 11:38:27 AM PST by American Dream 246
Unless the Egyptian government kills all of the phone lines as well, you might remember one means of getting online that broadband has since relegated to obsolescence: dial-up. While there's no Egyptian ISP that will allow internet access to Egyptian citizens, other countries will, meaning any Egyptian citizen with long-distance calling capabilities can break out their old school 56k modem and dial-up an ISP in another country. (Sure it's going to be a slow connection, but you can survive.)
Several ISPs—such as Budget DialUp—offer dial-up numbers all over the globe. Some ISPs in other countries are offering free access to Egyptians specifically in response to the Egyptian government's actions. According to twitter user @ioerror, French ISP FDN is one of them:
Egypt can use this number for dial up: +33172890150 (login 'toto' password 'toto') - thanks to a French ISP (FDN)#egypt #jan25
Others report that even DSL is still a possibility:
@SultanAlQassemi DIAL-UP ISP IS WORKING. DSL still working#Egypt,Try their Dial up numbers (0777 7770),(0777 7000) SPREAD THE WORD #jan25
While dial-up isn't an ideal means of getting online for most of us, it's still a perfectly effective means of connecting when your government shuts down the internet. And until the Egyptian government shuts down all landline access—another huge step up the censorship ladder—there's not much they can do to completely shut down the internet.
“.....planning to drive America to a
civil war...”
That may or may not be the plan, but with each passing day, it looks like it could very well become a reality.
I almost envy the people in Egypt, at least they are fighting for their freedom, while instead..... we watch ours slip through our fingers.
Indeed, and while I might eventually be interested in learning Morse Code , at least it’s not part of the test. ;>)
Every once in a Blue Moon the ACLU gets it right, and this is one of those times (I’m sure it wasn’t intentional).
As for the Constitutionality of shutting down the Internet without judicial review - EVER, even after a so-called emergency has passed - it is a taking of private property prohibited by the 5th without Due Process. Such would be nothing less than a declaration of war by a tyrannical government against our liberties and hence, against us.
TPTB should be careful what they wish for, they may get it...along with all of its unintended consequences.
In light of what happened in Egypt, Collins needs to be brought in front of congress, the bill read in the open and Collins should explain it.
I would broadcast it at 8:00pm CST on Hannity.
we are past tar and feathers, get a rope, quick fair trial and lawful punishment treason
And when push came to shove...as it always does...
the Tree of Liberty was watered in blood.
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Pending legislation that would grant the President of the United States the power to pull the plug on the country’s internet access in a declared “emergency” returned to the forefront this week on the same day Egyptians faced a nation-wide blackout designed to curtail widespread government protests. Egypt flipped it’s so-called “kill switch” — will the U.S.?
Of course they did, the name of the game is re-election.
Question: Does the government have the power to stop all types all of comminication? For example telephone (landlines or cellular) comes to mind. Is the internet singled out?
God damn them all, especially the Marxist Collins.
Huah.
Allow me to translate:
Collins pretends her bill would not grant the president the same powers as Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak has exercised this week, but it does EXACTLY THAT.
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