BART president on cell shutdown

BART president on cell shutdown

Broadband access as a human right, or even a right to the first amendment, it is worth to understand where these rights cannot be taken for granted. News this week-end in the battle of Libya for access to the web to the drama of last week by the San Francisco Transportation Agency wireless close during a protest, to know where the web in the weaker help shake citizens and consumers to change or protecting their rights.
We can think of communication of the Internet as this global network without borders, but there is still a lot of geographical limits in place thanks to how IP addresses countries transmission and who is the owner of the ISP. For example, in Libya, the State has the sole provider of telecommunications in the country, give freedom to the Government to get traffic to outside and inside the country. In March, the Government stopped some residents have access to the web, and it is not clear that it could be in control of the State communications company that is caused by the Internet in Libya are to fail online.

BART president on cell shutdown

Egypt, which in January cut off access to the web, took his Internet essentially making the IP addresses of the country for invisible routing tables which direct web traffic around the world, the method to which telecommunications companies announce their presence. Click five communication companies to meet the wishes of the Government. This strategy is not without risk, because it is very clear when a Government starts to the population to deny access, but it is also dangerous, because it may have unintended consequences. Pakistan ended In 2008 YouTube access to the world for a few hours to shut down, instead of just blocking the service within its borders, because he decided to give the global routing tables that packages indicate where it’s supposed to go on the web.

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