{"id":18587,"date":"2011-02-19T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T08:52:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-19T10:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T08:52:00","slug":"internet-cut-off-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/18587-internet-cut-off-in-libya.html","title":{"rendered":"Internet cut off in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BodyP\">Libya &#8220;abruptly disconnected&#8221; from the Internet at 4:15  pm.(00:15 GMT Saturday), according to the US based tracker of online  traffic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">Internet traffic in and out of the country halted  suddenly after being throttled earlier in the day, according to an Arbor  Networks chart titled &#8220;Libya Pulls the Plug.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">The regime of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi vowed on  Friday to snuff out attempts to challenge the Libyan leader, after an  opposition &#8220;day of anger&#8221; became a bloodbath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">According to a toll compiled by AFP from different  local sources, at least 41 people have lost their lives since  demonstrations first erupted on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet service was cut off in Libya on Friday as the regime evidently moved to strip anti-government protestors of ways to organize and communicate, according to Arbor Networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}