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Pakistan YouTube Block Breaks the World

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oops-they-did-it-again dept.

Allen54 noted a followup to yesterday's story about Pakistan's decision to block YouTube. He notes that "The telecom company that carries most of Pakistan's traffic, PCCW, has found it necessary to shut Pakistan off from the Internet while they filter out the malicious routes that a Pakistani ISP, PieNet, announced earlier today. Evidently PieNet took this step to enforce a decree from the Pakistani government that ISP's must block access to YouTube because it was a source of blasphemous content. YouTube has announced more granular routes so that at least in the US they supercede the routes announced by PieNet. The rest of the world is still struggling."

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  1. Re:But how did they do it? by Shakrai · · Score: 5, Funny

    You'd need one without any culture of censorship

    Sweden!

    and a strong enough military (including globally targeted nuclear missiles) not to be pushed around by the countries interested in censorship

    Oh. Shit. Well, ya had to muck things up with that requirement, huh?

    Wait, I know! The United States can take over Sweden! Then we'll have one country with no history of censorship and nuclear missiles! It's perfect!

    Hmm, free software/movies and Swedish chicks for me..... warmer weather and cheap blue jeans for them. Sounds like a win win for everybody concerned... and if any of those Swedes complain we'll just censor them ;)

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  2. Re:But how did they do it? by TMB · · Score: 5, Funny

    Second rule of BGP is you DO NOT talk about BGP!