Egypt Blocks Access To Facebook

Egyptian authorities are trying to block access to Facebook within the country in an effort to quell anti-government demonstrations organized via the social network.

Egyptian authorities are blocking access to Facebook within the country in an effort to quell anti-government demonstrations organized via the social network.

Egypt’s blockage was confirmed by Jillian York, a project coordinator at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society that oversees the Herdict service, who sent an email to Reuters.

However, the group We are all Khaled Said appears to be accessing Facebook via a proxy server, as a status update went up to the organization’s wall around when I started writing this post, saying “Situation can be summarized as street fighting across Cairo with focus in Central Cairo.

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