It’s not just you - youtube is definitely down!

I did some research - two days ago, Pakistan ordered all its ISPs to block access to Youtube.

Two days later, and the whole world has lost access to Youtube, as noted on Slashdot and the BBC and is being discussed on Wikipedia.

According to Stegonews, this is a malicious action by Pakistan to poison the Youtube DNS range. According to a news announcement on the OpenDNS server:

Youtube.com is down right now because Pakistan Telecom has decided to (accidentally probably) hijack their IP address space which means that nobody in the world can reach Youtube. This isn’t an OpenDNS issue. Just letting you all know.

Accidentally?! I’m not a great conspiracy theorist, but you don’t just poison DNS “accidentally”, two days after the same company cut a whole countries access off to Youtube because of “unislamic material”. I think this has the potential to grow into quite an incident.

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But then, as one blog notes ,

it’s just a temporary outage on a goddamn internet site, not the end of the fucking world.

True, but if it turns out to be a deliberate act, then we all need to start worrying.

NOTE: If you still do not have access and can edit your hosts file (and know how to), adding the line
208.65.153.238 www.youtube.com
provides a fix.

Tags: censorship,islam,pakistan,youtube
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