This is mind-boggling irony and hypocrisy combined. Saif Gadaffi lectures at the London Scool of Economics - and his subject? "The Role of Democracy and Dialogue in Civil Society". You couldn't make it up!
Showing posts with label Libya. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Libya. Show all posts
24 February 2011
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Internet shut down
There have been on-off rumours all morning that Gadaffi has shut down the Internet in Libya - just as his fellow dictator did in Egypt a couple of weeks ago. Let's hope the final outcome is similar.
It's been a particular worry to all those Twitter and FaceBook hipsters using the URL-shortening service at Bit.ly, because the .ly domain belongs to Libya. But they needn't worry - because apparently whilst .ly belongs to Libya, of the five "root servers" that make the domain work, only two are in Libya, and all five need to be shut down for .ly URLs to stop working. Two servers are in the US and one is in the Netherlands.
And they can always use TinyURL.com
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