Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Pakistan Causes Youtube Outage

This article actually tells about Pakistan that block access to the youtube website, unfortunately, that cause power lost in two-thirds of a global internet population.
The reason of Pakistan to block the access to youtube is because of anti-Islamic movies, and also the videos that will provoke people to have misconception about Islam. So why could this affect to the worldwide access? The first mistake is from Pakistan Telecom, which is they asked request to the international data carrier, PCCW Ltd. of Hong Kong to a block hole. They should be made request to a local data carrier, not to international data carrier. The second mistake came from international data carrier, PCCW Ltd. of Hong Kong that accepted that request.

So, in my opinion it is true that sometimes in websites there are movies or information that leads to the racism, especially about religions. So, I can understand why Pakistan government wants to block access to site that provides racism. However, for doing this they must have right knowledge and careful about procedure to make a request, because the later effect was caused to the worldwide access outage. PCCW Ltd. OF Hong Kong as international data carrier needs to review again before they finally accept a request, so it was a big mistake they made I think websites also have important roles to filter the information, so it is not lead people to have a misconception about something, the things like religion is sensitive to talk, and it is better to avoid that. In my knowledge youtube as a big website already had filter to things about pornography; however, I think in the future they must have filters too about violence and racism. Even though they asking for confirmation ages of users before access that, it’s not really useful because even a child can give the wrong information. I believe it needs more tight filters to access that. The most important things is from users, they must have responsibility before post a videos or even information about racism, violence, or pornography because it’s not only just shown to their community or people in the same interest, but

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