With the escalation of violence, Libya is pulling the plug of your Internet connection.
Major Internet service providers of Libya, General Post and telecommunications company, has begun to cut off access to the Internet on Friday, said the Earl Zmijewski, Managing Director with Internet monitoring Renesys Corporation. "Began to pull the plug about 23: 00 UTC today and are currently largely out of the air," said via e-mail. That was 1: 18 a.m. Saturday, local time.
Libya looks to be inspired by Egypt, which has cut off all access the Internet at the end of January as it has been roiled by street protests calling for political reform.
Similarly, thousands of Libyan took to the streets of the city of Benghazi this week in protests that led to 46 killings in the past three days, according to Amnesty International.
As the situation worsened, Internet traffic was cut off, making it difficult to get a picture of the situation on the ground.
The Libya is much smaller than Egypt, with fewer networks to disconnect, and it seems that this has made the job of cutting much easier access to the Internet.
Agence France Press reported Friday that Facebook was inaccessible from capital of Tripoli, Libya, and that "access to Internet was intermittent."
Posts about Twitter and the blog TechCrunch reported similar problems. Publisher of software usable NeoSmart, citing "friends" in Libya, said that the Government ordered ISPs to block most Web access. "Currently, most Web sites are not available and access to the Internet in General, has been locked," the company said in a blog post.
Robert McMillan covers the security of your computer and General technology breaking news for the IDG News Service. Follow Robert on Twitter at @ bobmcmillan. E-mail address is robert_mcmillan@idg.com, Robert
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