[Chapter-delegates] Libya still off line, Bahrain?

[Narelle]

For those of you monitoring the plight of Libyans.

A check this morning shows that routes from its only telco/ISP - Libya
Telecom and technology (LTT) owned by the Gaddafi family - are still
being advertised, but if you check google's transparency report there
is virtually no traffic emanating from the country when compared with
what was the norm before March 5. The conclusion being drawn is that
the actual bandwidth to the people has been disconnected, but the
routers are still on.

It looks like Gaddafi is retaining his stranglehold on the
population's ability to communicate, organise, learn, trade etc via
the Internet.


RIPE routing stats for AS 21003 (hit reload if the graphs come up empty)
http://stat.ripe.net/AS21003

Google transparency report:
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/

Craig Labovitz hasn't updated his middle east scorecard, or
observations on the region, but it remains relevant:
http://www.monkey.org/~labovit/blog/


I note that traffic from Bahrain has actually gone up this week, after
previous reports of a drop put down to an increase in filtering. The
people there are under martial law, and protesters bearing only
flowers were mowed down with guns yesterday.

Has anyone heard from the Bahrain Chapter?
http://www.bis.org.bh/
http://twitter.com/internetbh (mostly in Arabic)



best regards


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Narelle Clark
narellec at gmail.com
vice-president at isoc-au.org.au