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Egypt's internet penetration rate grew from less than one percent in 2000, to 5% in 2004, 24% in 2009, [5] 54.6% in 2014, and 71.9% in 2022. [6] Egypt has continued to grow internet penetration by investing in the information and communications technology sector, spending E£9.8 billion in 2008 which grew to E£13.5 billion in 2011.
Detailed country by country information on Internet censorship and surveillance is provided in the Freedom on the Net reports from Freedom House, by the OpenNet Initiative, by Reporters Without Borders, and in the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices from the U.S. State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 March 2025. Free and open-source anonymity network based on onion routing This article is about the software and anonymity network. For the software's organization, see The Tor Project. For the magazine, see Tor.com. Tor The Tor Project logo Developer(s) The Tor Project Initial release 20 September ...
Censorship by country collects information on censorship, Internet censorship, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and human rights by country and presents it in a sortable table, together with links to articles with more information.
In the days leading up to 27 January 2011, an increasing number of websites were blocked. On 25 January 2011, the State Security Investigations Service, Amn El Dawla, ordered Twitter to be blocked. The following day, Facebook was shut down. On the night of 27 January 2011 the Egyptian government shut down the Internet in Egypt.
Pages in category "Blocked websites by country" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Furthermore, the sole remaining functioning ISP, Noor, which had had eight percent of the market share in Egypt (but which connected the Egyptian stock market and many western companies to the outside world [74]), has been reported by Tor, an anonymity network, on 30 January to be the source of a quadrupling of Tor clients from Egypt within ...
An activist in Egypt tweeted, "we use Facebook to schedule the protests, Twitter to coordinate, and YouTube to tell the world". [132] This successful use of digital media in turn led to increased censorship including the complete loss of Internet access for periods of time in Egypt [87] [88] [133] and Libya in 2011.