by Declan McCullaghThe flap earlier this week in which Pakistan Telecom knocked YouTube.com off the Internet for two hours seems almost inexplicable.It’s not like when a court in Turkey blocked access to YouTube from within the country, or when China restricts Western news sites.Those were country-specific and intentional. The outage on Sunday was global and, as far as we know, unintentional.So what’s to stop another Internet service provider–especially a government-owned one–from intentionally trying this trick? It’s easy enough to imagine a situation in which North Korea feels like yanking Voice of America off the Internet, or some nations choosing to assail al-Jazeera (their satellite broadcasts already have been interrupted).
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