Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban... Hopes Internet Stays In One Piece This Time
from the not-so-quiet-after-all dept
When other countries have decided to ban YouTube, they've done it rather publicly, with a judge or politician stating very publicly that the site was to be banned for offensive videos. However, over the weekend, when Pakistan decided to ban YouTube, it tried to do so quietly, by simply telling various ISPs to block the site and hoping people wouldn't notice. That didn't work so well. As you might have noticed, thanks to the way some ISPs handle information, not only did it take out YouTube in Pakistan, but it ended up knocking it offline throughout much of the world, generating an awful lot of attention. And now, just about a day later, Pakistan has decided not to ban YouTube after all. So for a day's worth of a "quiet" ban on YouTube, Pakistan helped knock YouTube offline around the globe, got tons of attention to the fact that it was banning the site over some mysteriously "offensive" videos, and then didn't end up banning the site very long anyway. How effective was that plan?
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by Anonymous Coward on Feb 26th, 2008 @ 11:04am
Will they lose their AS number ?
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by Anonymous Coward on Feb 26th, 2008 @ 12:34pm
If they backpedaled so easily, it would seem they didn't feel that strongly about it, unlike certain other 8th Century regimes...
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If only... by James on Feb 26th, 2008 @ 1:13pm
...we could banish extremist, religious idiocy throughout the world so easily.
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The real problem with ISP's by Kevin on Feb 26th, 2008 @ 8:23pm
The real problem is how ISP's handle information..
From what I've read since this has happened is that the security of information on the current configuration/system is not at its best, and people are now looking more deeply on how to fix this problem. Thats the gist of what I know so far.
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