Egypt Web shutdown is coordinated, extensive

For the rocks and other projectiles that protestors are hurling in the streets of Cairo, Egypt's riot police have shields.
To combat social media, another important weapon for the demonstrators, outside experts and people living in the country say the government has coordinated a blockage of certain communications websites and unplugged internet access entirely to parts of the country.

On Thursday, protesters active on Twitter and Facebook, publicly documenting demonstrations on the streets of Cairo, Alexandria and other cities, went quiet. Around the same time, many websites centralized on servers in Egypt disappeared.

January 28, 2011By Mark Milian, CNN