Censorship

A link to an article was added by one of the AoIR members to the discussion group on how the Pakistani government managed to shut out about two thirds of the global internet population from YouTube for a while:

Pakistan move knocked out YouTube

I just finished reading an article: Blogging down the dictator by Kuliova and Perlmutter - they describe what role did only one blog had in the recent Kyrgyzstan revolution and compare it to samizdat publishing back in USSR. The main reason for the blog being successful was the fact that authorities could not hack into it - they claim it was because it was on an USA based server. Well, this recent incident once again shows that authorities are getting a lot smarter - getting even better results than they wanted.

The other main point that should be taken from this is the fact that even though states are struggling hard to border the internet, it just doesn't work that easily.