YouTube Outage Might Have Been Caused by Pakistan
section: common, for your questions: KezNews forum, 26.2.2008
Pakistani Internet service providers may have inadvertently blocked the popular YouTube Web site across the world at the weekend when they restricted local access to the site, a telecommunications official said.
YouTube said on Monday that many users around the world could not access the site for about two hours because traffic had been routed according to erroneous Internet protocols. The source of the problem was a network in Pakistan, YouTube said in a statement.
Pakistan ordered local Internet service providers to block access to the site because it was running material insulting to Islam, a Pakistani industry official said on Sunday. A government telecommunications official said the initial order to restrict local access might have mistakenly affected users around the world. "The blocking of the Web site within the country might have mistakenly affected its worldwide service, briefly," said the official, who declined to be identified. But there had been no intention to block the site worldwide, he said.
source: eweek.com
Send link 2 friend | Permalink
MORE RELATED ARTICLES:
Comments(9)
islam is a foul stench on our society.
i'm glad i don't live in a country
dominated by religion.
please tell. last i heard 'merica is controlled by overzealous christians. now, we have
the "crusades 1990-200?" campaign. self rule over government ftw!
hell yea.islam $ucks cause it aint have enough freedom but there must be something good
in it . america $ucks cause it has bush uau that man e a world scale dictatior. he lies he
cheats and he steals but at least we (rest of t world) dont give a rats ass. :p
people cry foul whenever a third-world government restricts internet access. yet these
same people forget that google (the world most popular search engine) regularly applies
censorship on the basis that either a website violates the dmca (a us law) or poses a
threat to users. in the second instance, only windows users are at risk. this censorship
is stupid on its face, yet it is applied to those (like me) who either don't live in the
united states or don't use windows.
so richie rivera, when will you stop using
google to show us how free you are ?
dear richie rivera,
what do u exactly know about islam? have u read some thing
irritating in islamic publication, which promotes terrorism or hatered against
non-muslims? if yes, then please refer here for the knowledge of other people too.
thanks
cafreak at msn.com
what's the point of blocking the access from your country if ppl from other countries
can see the insulting videos..
what does it prevent? flag the shit as inappropiate
and it'll get deleted!
and those who put unwanted videos will always put it
unless an action is taken. blocking access doesn't help it!
i'm in turkey and
our so democratic where freedom of speech is supposed to exists blocks access to youtube
as well.
dumb as politics!!!!
this not true, they blocked youtube because it has videos for other political parties in
pakistan, it's a local political issue, nothing has to do with islam, i red everything
about islam before, it's a very respected religion with more than one billion muslim
around the world, please be polite if you want others to respect your religion
you can't respect islam so long as there exists an entry in the koran suggesting "death
to all infidels" it is this that promotes acts of terrorism.
no respect until
they change that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wloasfolpq
No new comments are allowed for this article.
For your questions use our KezNews Forum
Islam
By Richie Rivera on 27.02.2008 - 04:02