.ly links being taken down by the Libyan government?

URL shortening links like bit.ly are apparently in trouble - or potentially so - due to the fact it's a Libyan domain space.

Tim Berner's Lee just tweeted "When you get use a .ly URL you are sending your link through Libyan airspace. Your choice? Try to avoid using #urlshorteners"

There's more on this on the Huffington Post and Gizmodo