Well technically the Pakistan government only banned access from inside Pakistan, and ordered Pakistani ISPs to block access. Nothing terribly new there. Someone at Pakistan Telecom pressed the wrong button and as a result asked your ISP to block your access. Being trusting souls they automatically did so, and the mistake spread around the world.
It's less "sledgehammer to crack a nut", more "you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off".
The rate of change is so rapid it's difficult for one person to keep up to speed. Let's pool our thoughts, share our reactions and, who knows, even reach some shared conclusions worth arriving at?
And pretty pointless. Will they also block Revver, Daily Motion etc, and any website showing anything offensive?
ReplyDeleteLook at the legal attempt to shut down Wikileak and how well that hasn't worked:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks
Well technically the Pakistan government only banned access from inside Pakistan, and ordered Pakistani ISPs to block access. Nothing terribly new there. Someone at Pakistan Telecom pressed the wrong button and as a result asked your ISP to block your access. Being trusting souls they automatically did so, and the mistake spread around the world.
ReplyDeleteIt's less "sledgehammer to crack a nut", more "you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off".