Egypt’s experience with internet censorship isn’t great. To prevent demonstrators from communicating via social media or reporting on what was going on elsewhere in the globe, the Egyptian government quickly disabled popular platforms such as Twitter during the Arab Spring uprising of 2011.
The government’s tighter web censorship has been relaxed in recent years, albeit the Anti-Cyber And Information Technology Crimes Law was passed in 2018. While this legislation was originally created to prevent the spread of extremist websites.
In addition, it has been used to justify blocking numerous completely legal sites, such as Al Jazeera and the Huffington Post, on the grounds that they produce “fake news.”
VoIP services such as Skype, WhatsApp, and FaceTime are all unusable. Text messaging features, on the other hand, are still functional in some cases. The websites of popular VPNs have also been blacklisted, so if you’re going to Egypt, we recommend setting it up ahead of time.
It’s also a good idea to make a note of customer support emails and instructions for installing the software, in whatever format is most secure.