Posted on 07/18/2017 6:56:18 AM PDT by wtd
"Most of the worlds Internet users lost access to YouTube for several hours Sunday after an attempt by Pakistans government to block access domestically affected other countries."..."
On Friday, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority ordered 70 Internet service providers to block access to YouTube.com, because of anti-Islamic movies on the video-sharing site, which is owned by Google."
(Excerpt) Read more at investmentwatchblog.com ...
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The outage highlighted yet another of the Internets vulnerabilities, coming less than a month after broken fiber-optic cables in the Mediterranean took Egypt off line and caused communications problems from the Middle East to India.
An Internet expert explained that Sundays problems arose when a Pakistani telecommunications company accidentally identified itself to Internet computers as the worlds fastest route to YouTube. But instead of serving up videos of skateboarding dogs, it sent the traffic into oblivion.
On Friday, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority ordered 70 Internet service providers to block access to YouTube.com, because of anti-Islamic movies on the video-sharing site, which is owned by Google.
Well the Internet can be con gamed!
Surely, there’s a way to blame the Russians.
CNN is busy working on it...
They meant to say ...”Due to the truth regarding the false prophet Mohammed and the equally false god made in his image, we cut the cord ...”
The net needs a bit of bullet-proofing.
It also needs to retain its wild-west flavor and any and all gov control needs to be nipped in the bud.
Thank God Hillary did not get elected...FR would already have been deemed illegal :-(
With a president Hillary all right leaning sites would be taken down and hard encryption would be illegal.
We dodged a bullet and God raised up an unlikely Gideon named Trump.
Pakistan already did this once about ten years ago.
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