Pakistan Causes Worldwide YouTube Outage

February 25, 2008 By PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer

(AP) -- Most of the world's Internet users lost access to YouTube for several hours Sunday after an attempt by Pakistan's government to block access domestically affected other countries.



Content from The Associated Press expires 15 days after original publication date. For more information about The Associated Press, please visit www.ap.org .

Similar stories from PHYSorg:


Web site tracks world online censorship reports

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

China web users 'outnumber US population'

created Jul 26, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

AT&T says Web site block was not censorship

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

UK says illegal downloaders may lose Web access

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 3

China blocking Twitter, websites: RSF

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


print this article email this article download pdf blog this article bookmark this article     Stumble it Digg this share on Facebook retweet share on Reddit add to delicious
Rate this story - 4.8 /5 (14 votes)

Rank Filter

Move the slider to adjust rank threshold, so that you can hide some of the comments.


Display comments: newest first

  • drknowledge - Feb 25, 2008
    • Rank: 2 / 5 (1)
    The problems are real, but the "sound bite" answers are a part of the problem, not the solution. Blocking the Internet to protect a country's laws is not "folly", it's an attempt to uphold the law. Equally, saying "It's just the way the Internet works" makes no allowance that Internet workings are always in flux (and usually improving), are not some natural phenomenon, and therefore can be altered, perhaps to solve the issues. Among the people who need to be criticized are those who claim some "instant answer" to what are complex situations.

February 25, 2008 all stories

Comments: 1

4.8 /5 (14 votes)
  • Stumble this up

  • Digg this

  • share this



  • hide
  • Relevant PhysicsForums posts

Other News

New 'finFETS' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips

New 'finFETs' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips

Technology / Semiconductors

created 6 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional flat design, possibly enabling engineers ...


Hydrogen milestone moves energy independence one step forward

Hydrogen milestone moves energy independence one step forward

Technology / Energy

created 4 hours ago | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Big things often come in small packages. That's certainly the case with the potential created by recent successes in hydrogen research at Idaho National Laboratory.


New search technique for images and videos has broad applications

New search technique for images and videos has broad applications

Technology / Computer Sciences

created 4 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a powerful new approach to a fundamental problem in computer vision: how to program a computer to recognize or categorize ...


Adobe Systems announced on Tuesday it was cutting some 680 jobs worldwide

Adobe cutting 680 jobs

Technology / Business

created 1hour ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Adobe Systems, known for its Photoshop editing program and Acrobat document software, announced on Tuesday it was cutting some 680 jobs worldwide, about nine percent of its workforce.


Members of the media are given a demonstration of the Kindle DX

Amazon delivers Kindle books to PCs

Technology / Software

created 1hour ago | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Amazon.com on Tuesday released free software that lets people read the online retail titan's electronic Kindle books on personal computers.