Spotlight: Internet - Pakistani Censor Effort Blocks Youtube -- Traffic Disruption Again Shows Fragility of Digital Superhighway

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NEW YORK - Most of the world's Internet users lost access to YouTube for several hours Sunday after an attempt by Pakistan's government to block access domestically affected other countries.

The outage highlighted yet another of the Internet's vulnerabilities, coming less than a month after broken fiber-optic cables in the Mediterranean took Egypt off line and caused communications problems from the Middle East to India.

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Spotlight: Internet - Pakistani Censor Effort Blocks Youtube -- Traffic Disruption Again Shows Fragility of Digital Superhighway

How it happened

Routing error: An Internet expert explained that Sunday's problems arose when a Pakistani telecommunic...

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