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Pakistan Blocks YouTube

Posted by Soulskill on from the out-of-sight-out-of-mind dept.

Multiple readers have written to tell us of news that Pakistan has ordered its ISPs to block access to YouTube "for containing blasphemous web content/movies." This follows increasing unrest in Pakistan over a Danish newspaper's reprinting of cartoons which depict Islam in a less-than-favorable light. The cartoons also sparked controversy when they were first published a few years ago.

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  1. IP hijacking, not DNS hijacking by Nigel+Stepp · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not that it's really important, but many are saying there is DNS hijacking going on.

    It's actually IP hijacking (from what I'm reading on the NANOG list anyway). An ISP in Pakistan is advertising a "more specific route" to Youtube's ip space. So, routers are taking the traffic there instead.

    It could easily be accidental, like someone not having the right filter in place to block that advertisement going out to everyone.

    I hope they are enjoying all of the extra packets.

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