I don't know much about Internet policy in Egypt and they may in fact be facing a free speech crisis. But nothing suggested in this article is quite so dire. Isn't there some reasonable arguments that can be made between a totally unregulated Internet and the Great Wall of China? "Slippery slope" arguments are always problematic. But the "Great Wall of China" is more than a little cliche when it is used for every argument, and its an insult to what the people of China are really suffering in human rights violations to so trivialize it. Cheryl B. Preston Edwin M. Thomas Professor of Law J. Reuben Clark Law School Brigham Young University 424 JRCB Provo, UT 84602 (801) 422-2312 [log in to unmask] >>> Robert Guerra <[log in to unmask]> 6/5/2008 7:02 am >>> Further to my earlier message on the topic - wanted to share two articles about the issue of censorship trends in Egypt. As it appears, users from the middle east/north africa region as well as the Egyptian blogosphere increasingly believes that the draconian great firewall of china will be coming to Egypt soon. regards Robert -- Censorship: A Threat to the Stability and Security of the DNS? http://www.circleid.com/posts/censorship_threat_dns_stability_security/ Egypt: Great Firewall of China Coming Soon http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/06/05/egypt-great-firewall-of-china-coming-soon posted by Amira Al Hussaini on Jun 05, 2008 categories: Egypt, News Egyptian bloggers have one hand on their keyboard and another on their hearts. Following a recent crackdown on bloggers and online activists following the April 6 unrest, some are now predicting the worse is yet to come. Tarek, at Not Gr33n Data, writes: It's getting more and more fishy everyday, the Newspapers are attacking what they call "The Dark World of the Internet", you may read Al-Ahram Newspaper's article here [Ar]. They are blaming the Egyptian people because they use the internet to … ehm … spread rumours, call for strikes, and post videos that may harm the Egyptian National Security! You know what, I am getting more and more confident now, that the Government's next move will be filtering the Internet. I already had similar suspicions a long while ago, but now I am really afraid that they may start filtering the Internet here in Egypt very soon, they may block sites such as Facebook, because what's said that the April 6th General Strike was organized there. They may also block YouTube, and who knows what will they block next. Seems that the Great Firewall of China is on its way to Egypt.