Pakistan Joins The Axis Of NoTube; Screws Up The Internet
from the yeah,-that'll-work dept
Some news stories really make you wonder if politicians ever think their actions through. It's as if they don't realize that anything they do might have a reaction that nullifies the point of the action in the first place. An example of this would be the repeated ridiculous attempts by various countries to ban YouTube entirely. We've already seen it happen in Brazil, Turkey, Morocco and Thailand. In every case, it was over some random video that the government (or a judge) found offensive. Yet, in calling for the entire site to be blocked, the effort only called a lot more attention to the offending videos, while also pissing off the much larger population of folks who were using YouTube to look at other content. The latest to join this crowd would be Pakistan, who quietly ordered ISPs to block YouTube without making any kind of public announcement. Of course, in doing so, the ISP PCCW that serves many countries throughout Asia accidentally blocked YouTube in many other countries as well -- and apparently directed a barrage of unwanted traffic at a Pakistani site, basically knocking Pakistan off the internet for a bit. Oops. Given how little previous bans of YouTube succeeded in preventing interest in these "offensive" videos, does Pakistan actually think it will work this time?![Hide This Hide this](https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/topclose.png)
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Offensive to Islam
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Re: Offensive to Islam
Anyway - someone needs to tell these fools that the cat is out the bag, and long gone.
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Re: Offensive to Islam
Anyway - someone needs to tell these fools that the cat is out the bag, and long gone.
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mmmm
the outage even affected us here in the UK for about 2 hours. Just enforces my views on Islam which i wont print here ( techdirt would be banned in several countries.)
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Re: mmmm
Are these view similar to my views on christianity or any other organisation where thinking is frowned upon?
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Comment
http://www.tech-exposed.com
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How Islamics would react.
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Get a clue, folks!
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Re: Get a clue, folks!
Some religions repress women, some repress homosexuals, some repress both and other groups. There are few, if any, religions out there which are not into repression in some form or another.
I guess religions do not like people to think. Otherwise these thinkers would soon come to see their religion for what it is. Emptiness to fill the void of the meaning of life. Personally, i prefer Monty Python's take on that theme.
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Re: Get a clue, folks!
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wrong headline
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Misplaced blame
http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/
The bigger question is how will global telecoms continue to provide services to these countries? There's a certain level of trust needed with BGP route advertisements, etc.
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That's ok, I'm sure users in Pakistan will now become familiar with what a 'proxy' is.
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Re: Anonymous @ 8
You're "worried about having a Muslim in office"? Please tell me you haven't been so abysmally stupid as to fall for the disparaging chain letters going around discussing Senator Obama. This is fear-mongering nonsense, of course, but it seems to play very well with those of limited intellectual ability.
It's also wrong. The man's a Christian, and has been for decades. See, for example: Barack Obama - Wikipedia which reads in part:
So if you want to be concerned that the man's a devout Christian, fine, be concerned about that -- because it's REAL. But this feeble whispering campaign is odious and reflects very poorly on the bigots, liars, and fools propagating it.[ link to this | view in chronology ]
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I can't stand stupid, so my approach to this is slap the morons promoting it -- hard. They deserve it.
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Surely any religion, or group, that is comfortable with its beliefs and practices, can defend their beliefs without having to resort to simply banning any criticism / offensiveness? What happened to just saying "Ok, whatever you say" and getting on with life?
They're all cowards. All religions always have been, and they always will be, because they're terrified of losing control.
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Oh, and there is a small difference between the catholic church protesting something because you don't agree with the message and chopping someone's head off because you don't agree with them.
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Re: Anonymous Coward @19
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Call in technical help from India
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Inquisition? Crusades? This is 2011, just because some in the muslim world want to live in the stone ages doesn't mean we should join them.
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Muslin Governments
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Re: @23
From what I sit, there is little effective difference between (to pick a couple of contemporary examples) the Taliban (still alive and well, by the way) and the Westboro Baptist Church. Yes, their behaviors are occasionally different, but that's only due to externally imposed constraints. If you actually pay attention to what they're saying -- the message is the same.
So please don't pretend that Christianity or Judaism or any other primitive superstitious nonsense is somewhere more civilized than Islam. They're not. Any temporary appearance to the contrary is just a momentary aberration -- a brief interruption in a pattern that's been sustained for millenia.
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Scary
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Its not religions fault, it is mans fault.
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Re: @27
But if you really want to unleash the worst that people have -- then use religion. There's nothing like invoking the authority of a god (or gods) to keep human beings going at it for millenia. As we see every day, looking around the world -- even wars that go on for decades are trifling, temporary skirmishes compared to conflicts based on religious differences.
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This is the information that the Dutch government is supplying about this.
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We may be in a religious war right now, but that is our our enemy sees it, not America.
Religion, just like politics, is used for some groups to gain power. It doesn't cause it, but humans turn it into that.
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Pakistan
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Pakistan
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