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Report: Egypt blocks now also on Facebook and YouTube

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Twitter has locked the Egyptian government is now apparently also provides access to Facebook and YouTube. According HerdictWeb previously received 33 reports that Facebook is blocked in Egypt, there are 13th on YouTube

The blog Bikya Masr reports that can be restricted to Blogspot and Gmail only accessed. According to Global Voices on the government even from cell sites to discourage protesters communicate by phone.

As time online reports, it had in the English edition of the Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm, was told that the government had not imposed the locks spontaneously, but specifically prepared. Months before security agencies and telecommunications companies had planned, therefore, important to block services and sites in order to silence critics. At the moment website of Al-Masry Al-Youm can not be achieved.

A Facebook representative told Bloomberg via e-mail, there have been no major changes in the traffic in Egypt. According to Al Jazeera on Thursday, Twitter should have been reached again. The hacker group Anonymous, however, is forming an “Operation Egypt”.

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