Article 411E2 Pakistan causes YouTube outage for two-thirds of world (ABC)

Pakistan causes YouTube outage for two-thirds of world (ABC)

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ABC News has thestory on why YouTube went down; it's a good example of just how robustthe Internet is (or isn't) anymore. "An Internet expert explained that Sunday's problems arose when a Pakistani telecommunications company accidentally identified itself to Internet computers as the world's 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."
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