Pakistan YouTube Block Breaks the World

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."

Comments

PieNet

[Kenoli]

Lol, PieNet.

Re:Digital war?

[Dunbal]

So is my computer going to explode?

Oh wait some of them already come with that feature built in!

Re:CBG

[br00tus]

Your country gave us the Common Law, the Magna Carta and the foundations of Representative Democracy. You stood alone against Hitler for all those lonely months between the Fall of France and the involvement of the Soviet Union and United States. That stand likely saved Western Democracy from Communism or Fascism.

As my family is from Ulster, and I still have family in Ulster, part of which is said to be part of the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", I can add on to your list of gifts to the world from the UK...common law, magna carta etc. and those other terms. I have some terms of my own to add - internment without trial, shoot-to-kill policy, army occupation, police/paramilitary collaboration, rubber bullets, Bloody Sunday, imperialism, colonization.