{"id":24263,"date":"2011-01-29T19:19:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T19:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/sf_chronicle_tech_world_stunned_at_egypts_internet_shutdown\/"},"modified":"2011-01-29T19:19:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T19:19:29","slug":"sf_chronicle_tech_world_stunned_at_egypts_internet_shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24263","title":{"rendered":"(SF Chronicle) Tech world stunned at Egypt&#39;s Internet shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Egyptian government&#8217;s unprecedented shutdown of Internet and mobile phone access Friday stunned the world&#8217;s technology community, which questioned whether the country can quickly recover from cutting such a vital link for commerce and communication.<\/p>\n<p>The government&#8217;s surprising move came in the face of widespread civil unrest, but essentially wiped the country off the world&#8217;s online maps, said Jim Cowie, chief technology officer and co-founder of Renesys, a New Hampshire firm that monitors how the Internet is operating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is astonishing because Egypt has so much potentially to lose in terms of credibility with the Internet community and the economic world,&#8221; Cowie said. &#8220;It will set Egypt back for years in terms of its hopes of becoming a regional Internet power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2011\/01\/29\/BU3T1HFPGM.DTL\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Egyptian government&#8217;s unprecedented shutdown of Internet and mobile phone access Friday stunned the world&#8217;s technology community, which questioned whether the country can quickly recover from cutting such a vital link for commerce and communication. The government&#8217;s surprising move came<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24263\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,433,94,560,114,89,203,151,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-egypt","category-law-legal-issues","category-media","category-middle-east","category-politics-in-general","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}