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Pakistan Breaks YouTube

in News on February 25, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Internet Actually a Series of N00bs

in News on February 25, 2008 at 12:58 am PT

Less than 5% of Pakistan’s citizens have Internet access, but those who do must have nasty tempers. Fearing that a reportedly anti-Islamic YouTube video would incite civil unrest, the Pakistani government ordered the country’s Internet service providers to block access to the video site, inadvertently triggering a two-hour long, global outage of YouTube yesterday. Seems [...]