I’ve wanted to find something in Youtube on Sunday and I’ve seen that the website is unreachable. Well, it is hosting, so downtime is always possible. I’ve thought that the website is overloaded and continued to do what I had to.
Today I’he read that YouTube was down on Sunday after the government of Pakistan tried to restrict local access to the website. This resulted affected in limited access to YouTube from other countries.
Pakistan ordered local ISPs to block access to the YouTube website because it was running material insulting to Islam. The Pakistani government however said there was no intention to block worldwide ccess to YouTube.
The video sharing network removed the content deemed insulting to Islam.
Pakistan justified its order to block You Tube on its own territory by saying it was necessary to avoid unrest in the 160 million, predominantly Muslim country.
Internet monitoring firm Renesys reported that the block extended over two-thirds of the global Internet population, with the greatest affect seen in Asia where the outage lasted 2 hours.
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