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title: Somalia Internet shut down
date: "2001-11-27T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1545
description: I question whether the US is overreacting post-9/11, citing the shutdown of Somalia’s internet, policing of protest posters, and the introduction of the SSSCA as alarming developments for global connectivity and digital civil liberties.
keywords: [somalia, sssca, internet censorship, civil liberties, digital rights, 9/11]
---

Is America over-reacting? That attack on Afghanistan apart, they've shut down [Somalia's Internet](http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1672000/1672220.stm) access, they're [policing posters](http://www.indyweek.com/durham/current/triangles.html), introducing the [SSSCA](http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46655,00.html)...