http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/01/31/how-egypt-shut-down-the-web%e2%80%94and-how-egyptians-are-fighting-back/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics. Wed, 23 May 2012 14:57:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/01/31/how-egypt-shut-down-the-web%e2%80%94and-how-egyptians-are-fighting-back/comment-page-1/#comment-616272 nick Tue, 01 Feb 2011 07:01:32 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=25606#comment-616272 Vodafone immediately rolled over and cut their access to Egypt. Capitalists care about money, not justice nor democracy. One might speculate that they were doing so to protect their employees from harm by the ruling elites that ordered the shutdown, but I suspect the truth is much more banal and yet ever more sinister: they likely shut down to protect their equipment investments from being smashed by the police. Vodafone immediately rolled over and cut their access to Egypt. Capitalists care about money, not justice nor democracy. One might speculate that they were doing so to protect their employees from harm by the ruling elites that ordered the shutdown, but I suspect the truth is much more banal and yet ever more sinister: they likely shut down to protect their equipment investments from being smashed by the police.

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