Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Pakistan Causes Worldwide YouTube Outage


The article “Pakistan Causes Worldwide YouTube Outage” is about the ban of accessing YouTube from local internet of Pakistan because of anti-Islamic movie. Pakistan Telecom linked request for YouTube from local internet to a black hole, so all the data would be discarded. This action effected to the international networking of YouTube that was caused by the route to black hole is accepted by PCCW, the international data carrier. The effect was all requesting to YouTube from the world was discarded.

That is a good thing to protect Pakistan residents from harmful movies which will make they betrayed their religion. It can be accepted that Pakistan forbid the inciting movies especially for anti-Islamic and homosexuals, but Pakistan must concern about the effect of their action to others countries. I think Pakistan planned to forbid those movies all over the world, so they ask the PCCW to accept the route to black hole. Each country has its own rule to regulate the nation, so one country can’t regulate another country. For the example, freedom is the priority in the United State so every resident is able to watch any kind of movies.

Outside the above assumption, everyone can take something positive from this problem. The networking between international and local internet must be separated clearly, so the disturbing of one local network to international network won’t happen in the next time. Another positive thing is it is important to keep our walk in our patch although there are so many temptations outside. If we can control ourselves, so there aren’t need a forbidden for the temptations. YouTube isn’t just about the inciting movies, but it has a lot of movies that give knowledge. Considering our action between the positive and the negative effects before we do it is the best way.

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