Following widespread public protests in Egypt, the countrys government is reportedly coming down heavily on social media. Twitter and Facebook have already been blocked for several hours and now we have word that Google services, including YouTube have been added to the list.
With the social media-fueledrecentuprising in nearby Tunisia fresh in the regions memory, its perhaps unsurprising that the government is apparently attempting to keep a lid on things by throttling online methods of communication.
As Fast Company reported yesterday, pro-democracy demonstrators have been using social media as a way of both organising, and sharing images and videos from, the protests against incumbent President Hosni Mubarak. Twitter confirmed (across two tweets) several hours ago that it had been blocked in the north African state, with news of a Facebook block following.
Now a reader has informed us that YouTube and other Google services are also blocked, news thats corroborated by this report from Bikyamasr.
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