[141028] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: $ 90 million fine for cutting Internet services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Belin)
Sat May 28 16:18:01 2011
In-Reply-To: <1E21AC56-2EA3-4D4B-A584-1980919F34F4@zaidali.com>
From: Daniel Belin <belin.daniel@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 16:17:47 -0400
To: Zaid Ali <zaid@zaidali.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Interesting, there now seems to be a trend of middle eastern countries cutti=
ng themselves off from the Internet,
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2011/05/iran_plans_to_cut_off_from_the.=
php
I think we will see more of this kind of behavior happening in the next few y=
ears, as the web has become a real threat to totalitarian and oppressive gov=
ernments. =20
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Daniel Belin
On May 28, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Zaid Ali <zaid@zaidali.com> wrote:
> I am a little skeptic that this fine imposed is because the government tru=
ly believes in Internet freedom. Many factions of the Egyptian government wa=
s to get as much money out of Mubarak as they can and this might be a way to=
do just that. What would be interesting is if there is a law passed prevent=
ing any member of the government from cutting off Internet access.
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> Zaid
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> On May 28, 2011, at 12:23 PM, ML wrote:
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>> On 5/28/2011 12:18 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
>>> I remember some discussion of this outage on NANOG, and on what it was c=
osting Egypt. Well, here is
>>> an estimate - almost $ 20 million USD / day (which actually sounds low t=
o me).
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>>> Regards
>>> Marshall
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>>> http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/05/201152811555458677.html=
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>>> An Egyptian court has fined ousted president Hosni Mubarak and former of=
ficials more than $90m for cutting off access to internet and mobile phone s=
ervices during the country's massive protests in January.
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>>> A court source told the Reuters news agency on Saturday that Mubarak's f=
ine is $34m, former interior minister Habib al-Adly will owe $53m, and forme=
r prime minister Ahmed Nazif has a fine of $7m.
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>>> The fine is to be paid from personal assets...
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>> Can I fine TEDATA for committing VoIP fraud against my network during tha=
t same time period?
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