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.

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drknowledge - Feb 25, 2008
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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.
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