Pakistan causes YouTube outage
25 February 08, 6:22 pm
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Apparently the government of Pakistan caused YouTube to go down around the world for several hours Sunday after ordering its domestic ISPs to block the site due to anti-Islamic movies. A routing error caused the block to affect Internet users outside of Pakistan. As a consequence, I had to wait a couple hours to watch these gems:

AirAmerica reports that YouTube will be blocked in Pakistan indefinitely. On a related note, I found this list of other states that currently ban the video-sharing site or have done so in the past.


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While I am, and will always be, an Armisen fan, that clip makes me long for the days when SNL impersonators really nailed it.

Comment by Tony 25 February 08 @ 6:38 pm



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