Internet Censors

This past Sunday, YouTube disappeared for about 2 hours.

It was an incredibly heavy handed attempt at censorship, gone awry. The map at the right displays the worst Internet censors.

And here’s how it played out. (We’ll apologize up front, because this may get technical).

When someone in Pakistan decided that a video on YouTube was blasphemous and rang up Pakistani Telecom, who turned around and decided that the to block the video, the solution would be to advertise a route to YouTube that went nowhere.