Lybia

After Tunisia and Egypt, Lybia is now revolting against his political regime. To express themselves, and their opinion, to tell the world what is going on and what is happening in the country, thousands of Lybian have decided to use ICT (information and communication technologies). Facebook and Twtter have been the main to communicate along with blogs.

Thanks to this, people have been able to talk from their point of view, along with Tv or journalist who couldn't always be everywhere, or even sometimes enter the country, the information flow wouldn't be stop because the population create here the information.

But what happened in Tunasia and Egypt had to happened also in Lybia, to prevent leaks or (uncontrolled) information to spread around the world, Internet acces, facebook and other way to communicate have been blocked or filtered. The first time happened between the 18^th and 19 of February and then the next night.

If we look closer we can see two nights without any activity but also that during the day the activity has really reduce. It's a double blockage preventing any person in Lybia to acess the Internet but also anybody body in the world to access a Lybian website.

This diagram from an article from lemonde.fr “ http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2011/02/19/la-libye-tente-de-couper-l-acces-a-internet_1482742_3212.html” comes with a question, was that only a test before really cutting the Internet ? So far nothing else happened but the future might change that.