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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."
In the blasphemes West - The World breaks Pakistan YouTube block.
Soviet Russia joke, . . . , tired of you!
What's your point? The UK isn't perfect? Did I say that it was?
My point was that the UK has a proud history and that it would be more productive for it's citizens to fight for their rights (as did their parents and grandparents) then to whine about losing them without doing anything about it. My point was that for all it's flaws I'd much rather live in the UK then Pakistan.
The GP seemed to imply that Pakistan was more "free" then the UK. If "free" means a censoring military dictatorship that allows the opposition to be assassinated then, yeah, I guess Pakistan is "free".
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
That's one way to look at it, though the jaded apathy that I typically see on /. is hardly "motivational". Becoming jaded might be a good thing if it encourages you to stand up and fight for what you believe in. Becoming apathetic is never a good thing and it's ultimately the apathy of the population that has allowed our time honored institutions (Parliament and Congress) to become slaves to special well connected interests at the expense of the common man. Those interests are the only ones speaking out loudly enough to be heard.
Seriously, "Pakistan is more free than the UK"? How else should I respond to that type of statement? There are real people fighting and dying for their rights in that country. I suspect if they heard this type of whining from Americans or Brits they'd be pretty pissed off -- people aren't shooting us when we try to change the course of our nations.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.