In Libya the government has shut down there internet service. Many companies saw the traffic coming from Libya come to a complete stop at noon on Thursday. The networks in Massachusetts, along with Google’s transparency report said that the traffic coming in from Libya stopped around the same time. Many nonviolent protests have broken out in Libya; this is the result of the government shutting down the internet for a week. Many people were able to tell what was going on in Libya before this event through internet social groups like Facebook and Twitter. These social groups have served as anti-government groups that may have been the cause of the internet being shut down. “Nonetheless, because the Internet isn't as central to everyday life in Libya, it is more likely that the few who can get online are educated, influential and using the Web to keep informed about politics,” York said. The people of Libya who have an internet access can use it to tell others of the corruption and unfair treatment of people where they live. This could bring others in other areas of the globe to use these social groups to explain things that may be wrong around where they are living. These social groups are a good thing for people to use to be able to keep up with social and political events taking place around the world. These protest and anti-government groups popping up on the internet social groups are both a good thing and bad. The good this is that other places where people in society disagree with what the government is doing, have the ability to say what is on their minds, though the result of this in Libya was the government shut down the internet to stop these groups. Not only did this affect the anti- government group it also had an effect on those who used the internet for recreational purposes.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/04/libya-shuts-internet-service-ahead-planned-anti-government-protests/
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