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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."

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  1. No more access.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...to all that mindless timewasting drivel on YouToob. Now how again was that bad?

  2. Pakistan off the net? by Dunbal · · Score: -1, Troll

    And nothing of value was lost.

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    Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
  3. Re:Cue "Islam is evil post" by Reality+Master+201 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I doubt it. The internet is a handy tool - for economic purposes, for intelligence work, as an avenue of attack against one's enemies (read: India, in this case).

  4. the last straw? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    by most measures, the world was fairly well 'broken' before utube came on. we're working with our kids about being responsible, so we don't have to nuke utube also. as with anything (public restrooms? etc..) knowing the real deal, can make it less dangerous. let yOUR conscience be yOUR guide. you can be more helpful than you might have imagined. there are still some choices. if they do not suit you, consider the likely results of continuing to follow the corepirate nazi hypenosys story LIEn, whereas anything of relevance is replaced almost instantly with pr ?firm? scriptdead mindphuking propaganda or 'celebrity' trivia 'foam'. meanwhile; don't forget to get a little more oxygen on yOUR brain, & look up in the sky from time to time, starting early in the day. there's lots going on up there.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071229/ap_on_sc/ye_climate_records;_ylt=A0WTcVgednZHP2gB9wms0NUE
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080108/ts_alt_afp/ushealthfrancemortality;_ylt=A9G_RngbRIVHsYAAfCas0NUE
    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/opinion/31mon1.html?em&ex=1199336400&en=c4b5414371631707&ei=5087%0A

    is it time to get real yet? A LOT of energy is being squandered in attempts to keep US in the dark. in the end (give or take a few 1000 years), the creators will prevail (world without end, etc...), as it has always been. the process of gaining yOUR release from the current hostage situation may not be what you might think it is. butt of course, most of US don't know, or care what a precarious/fatal situation we're in. for example; the insidious attempts by the felonious corepirate nazi execrable to block the suns' light, interfering with a requirement (sunlight) for us to stay healthy/alive. it's likely not good for yOUR health/memories 'else they'd be bragging about it? we're intending for the whoreabully deceptive (they'll do ANYTHING for a bit more monIE/power) felons to give up/fail even further, in attempting to control the 'weather', as well as a # of other things/events.

    http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=video+cloud+spraying

    dictator style micro management has never worked (for very long). it's an illness. tie that with life0cidal aggression & softwar gangster style bullying, & what do we have? a greed/fear/ego based recipe for disaster. meanwhile, you can help to stop the bleeding (loss of life & limb);

    http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/28/vermont.banning.bush.ap/index.html

    the bleeding must be stopped before any healing can begin. jailing a couple of corepirate nazi hired goons would send a clear message to the rest of the world from US. any truthful look at the 'scorecard' would reveal that we are a society in decline/deep doo-doo, despite all of the scriptdead pr ?firm? generated drum beating & flag waving propaganda that we are constantly bombarded with. is it time to get real yet? please consider carefully ALL of yOUR other 'options'. the creators will prevail. as it has always been.

    corepirate nazi execrable costs outweigh benefits
    (Score:-)mynuts won, the king is a fink)
    by ourselves on everyday 24/7

    as there are no benefits, just more&more death/debt & disruption. fortunately there's an 'army' of light bringers, coming yOUR way. the little ones/innocents must/will be protected. after the big flash, ALL of yOUR imaginary 'borders' may blur a bit? for each of the creators' innocents harmed in any way, there is a debt that must/will be repaid by you/us, as the perpetrators/minions of unprecedent

  5. Re:But how did they do it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Either they did it deliberately or they're incompetent. But I'd say it's irrelevant if this is a case of malicious compliance or not, Google need to send a message and sue the paki Junta for instigating a DOS attack.

  6. Re:But how did they do it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
  7. Re:But how did they do it? by digitalchinky · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well you are just a helpful little rvw today :-)

    +3 informative? Are the mods still on crack?

    Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. (Quote from linked wikipedia page)

  8. Just Another Group of Religious Zealots... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Attempting to force their ways on the world. Why can't those Muhammed worshipping, Towel headed camel jockeys keep their ideas and opinions to themselves and leave the rest of the internet alone. This amounted to nothing more than cyber-terrorism from a country and everyone is just trying to pass it off as an ISP following a decree by a frigging madman. Those sand jockeys knew exactly what they were doing and their government orchestrated it for them to do. Total bullshit how the worldwide community is just taking it lying down. Just another case of Muhammed and Allah screwing infidels. If anything all the cartoons and depictions of those assholes are accurate. They should depict Muhammed and Allah both as a couple of the Care Bears, Beat-A-Lot and Whine-a-lot care bears.