[Chapter-delegates] Lybian Internet Outage

[Patrick Vande Walle]

On 20 Feb 2011, at 02:38, Veni Markovski wrote:

> Any government can do it, where there's not enough liberal legal
> framework, or enough private Internet service providers. And they can
> do it as much as they want.

Veni, 

In Egypt, all ISPs were private sector companies. They received an order from the government and they complied. 

 In the end, it is the government who writes the rules.  I agree that in many countries there is room for discussion, appeals and so on. But at the end of day, companies have to comply with whatever terms that are set by law.

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