Middle East Internet Scorecard 87
sturgeon writes "With the escalating violence and frequent reports of phone and Internet blockages across the Middle East and North Africa, it's getting hard to keep track of what is happening where. Arbor released a new report and graphic scorecard of Internet censorship in the region."
Re:Was getting worried for a second... (Score:5, Insightful)
And if they elect religious figures to parliament and establish a religious democracy?
Tunisia and Egypt have had their revolutions, it's up to them to decide on the government they want, if they want fundamentalists representing them, thats their right.
Same for the United States if the voters of a state elect a fundamentalist or an atheist.
Information Wants To Be Free (Score:4, Insightful)
Crappy information design (Score:3, Insightful)
The green graphs are the traffic over the previous three weeks, yet turn yellow for single-day traffic anomalies somewhere in the previous three weeks? The X axis is labeled with only one set of dates.
I guess we're supposed to look at these and go "yup, the problem is here, where this line appears to not be part of the same pattern as the others."
This scorecard thing is terrible. I can only be thankful for the many paragraphs which state exactly the same thing, only clearer.
Re:Was getting worried for a second... (Score:2, Insightful)
Or the United States in the 19th century?