Blackout: Egyptian Internet Taken Offline by Government Crackdown

You know it's getting serious when people aren't using Facebook. The social networking giant now says it has noticed significantly reduced traffic from Egypt as a result of the Egyptian government's attempt to shut down its country's Internet this week to quash political protests. Though we've seen governments attempt to censor the Internet in times of uprising before (like during the 2009 Iranian election), Forbes says this is "the first time in modern history a major Internet economy is being shut down."