If the government tried to shut the internet in the UK.

Of course, its absurd but legislation to do that is in process in the USA already and we might fear for democracy and our loved ones if it all went away.

It is possible for you to stay connected. You might like to use https://www.torproject.org and downloading it now is a pretty good idea while HMG is being benign.

Of course, if you are really paranoid, you may want to protect yourself from snoopers and this can be done with http://www.privoxy.org/.

So here is a a really useful job for that old computer that you don't use any more and, believe it or not, action now will help people in Egypt connect back with the world today.