Chaos on the Internet with Pakistan and the Centre YouTube

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The world was isolated from YouTube and Pakistan was isolated from the world due to a series of mistakes in the handling of Pakistan decree to block the popular video sharing site.

It all started on Sunday when Pakistani officials announced that the country will begin to censor YouTube, citing videos considered blasphemous to the Islamic values of the country.

According to Information Week, Internet service providers from Pakistan were given immediate orders to block the popular video sharing site. One of these ISPs, PieNet, YouTube blocked in such a way that applications are sent to the site to a web page that you think. Problems set in later when the block spread to Hong Kong-based telecom provider PCCW. Technical errors caused by changes in PCCW spread throughout the world, sending around the world called YouTube PieNet block the page.

The details of what happened next are unclear, but it seems PCCW seen the error and had to either cut off the Internet access Pakistan until it is resolved the matter.

“The leadership of Pakistan has recently set up a massive denial-of-service [attack] in their own country,” wrote Richard Stiennon ZDNet blogger threats Chaos.

According to Google YouTube parents, problems lasted “about two hours.”

“Traffic will be routed to YouTube according to the Internet protocols wrong, and many users around the world can not access our site,” Google said in a statement, noting that it is “working with others in the community Internet to prevent this from happening again. “

Speaking to the BBC, an unnamed networking expert thought that the blackout was “probably a simple mistake made by an engineer there is nothing to suggest this was malicious.”