This reallly is a low moral blow for Pakistan to even think of attempting this sort of censorship on the world
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7262071.stmPakistan's attempts to block access to YouTube have been blamed for a near global blackout of the site on Sunday.
Google, the owner of YouTube, blamed the outage on "erroneous internet protocols", sourced in Pakistan
BBC News has learned that the nearly two hour blackout was almost certainly connected to Pakistan Telecom and internet service provider PCCW.
The country ordered ISPs to block the video-sharing website because of content deemed offensive to Islam.
The BBC News website's technology editor, Darren Waters, says that to block Pakistan's citizens from accessing YouTube it is believed Pakistan Telecom "hijacked" the web server address of the popular video site.
IP hijacking involves taking over a web site's unique address by corrupting the internet's routing tables, which direct the flow of data around the world.
Reports said Pakistan made the move because YouTube content included Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that have outraged many.
But one report said a trailer for a forthcoming film by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, which portrays Islam in a negative light, was behind the ban.
Whilst I canUnderstand some may be offended by others poking fun at their beliefs there is never any reason to try to impose those beliefs on the rest of the world, one has only to imagine the result of this if the tables where reversed by a large Christian group, It does not even bear thinking about.
This has had one positive effect, I will now be looking to watch the film mentioned above and also any further films made to refute any claims made in it, following its release, thats how the world works, we are as humans swayed to our beliefs by those providing information, to try to hide information is in this day and age nearly impossible, I would in the Pakistani governments shoes have simply placed a government sponsored commentary video on YouTube to make a case against "religion baiting", censorship is never the answer.
