Re: $ 90 million fine for cutting Internet services

[Daniel Belin <belin.daniel () gmail com>]

Interesting, there now seems to be a trend of middle eastern countries cutting themselves off from the Internet,

http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2011/05/iran_plans_to_cut_off_from_the.php

I think we will see more of this kind of behavior happening in the next few years, as the web has become a real threat 
to totalitarian and oppressive governments.  

--
Daniel Belin



On May 28, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Zaid Ali <zaid () zaidali com> wrote:

> I am a little skeptic that this fine imposed is because the government truly believes in Internet freedom. Many 
> factions of the Egyptian government was to get as much money out of Mubarak as they can and this might be a way to do 
> just that. What would be interesting is if there is a law passed preventing any member of the government from cutting 
> off Internet access.
>
> Zaid
>
> On May 28, 2011, at 12:23 PM, ML wrote:
>
> > On 5/28/2011 12:18 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> > > I remember some discussion of this outage on NANOG, and on what it was costing Egypt. Well, here is
> > > an estimate - almost $ 20 million USD / day (which actually sounds low to me).
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Marshall
> > >
> > >
> > > http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/05/201152811555458677.html
> > >
> > > An Egyptian court has fined ousted president Hosni Mubarak and former officials more than $90m for cutting off 
> > > access to internet and mobile phone services during the country's massive protests in January.
> > >
> > > A court source told the Reuters news agency on Saturday that Mubarak's fine is $34m, former interior minister Habib 
> > > al-Adly will owe $53m, and former prime minister Ahmed Nazif has a fine of $7m.
> > >
> > > The fine is to be paid from personal assets...
> >
> > Can I fine TEDATA for committing VoIP fraud against my network during that same time period?