Government control of Internet - Egypt

So what happens to Internet traffic when the government says shut it off?  The picture below shows exactly that for Egypt.  With all the riots and strife going on in the country, Mubarak ordered that it be shut down (with just a few exceptions).  You can see in the time period during the unrest that traffic had really picked up. Internet service in Egypt essentially comes through four companies, so the process was not too difficult.  I wonder what the same kind of map would show for the U.S?rest

Meanwhile, it appears that Robert Gibbs tweeted that Egypt should put the internet back on:


"'Very concerned about violence in Egypt - government must respect the rights of the Egyptian people & turn on social networking and internet"


Elsewhere, a snag for Obama