911review/internet

From the page: "Snopes.com was founded in 1998 1997 1995 over 9000 years ago by two racist, intolerant right-wing hicks who pretend to be racist, intolerant left-wing hicks.. Their entire purpose as a site seems to be to blatantly lie to people, and to try suing anyone who refutes them- while constantly being threatened with lawsuits themselves. All of this was lulzy at first, but now that its common knowledge the site is completely fucking unreliable and inhabited by nothing but fucktards, the joke has gotten stale. At times, snopes chronic incompetence can still be lulzy, but about the only reason to ever go there is for the fake an hero video they claim is real."

The telecom company that carries most of Pakistan's traffic, PCCW, has found it necessary to shut Pakistan off from the Internet while they filter out the malicious routes that a Pakistani ISP, PieNet, announced earlier today. Evidently PieNet took this step to enforce a decree from the Pakistani government that ISP's must block access to YouTube because it was a source of blasphemous content.

I cannot let the irony pass with out commenting. A religious state, Pakistan, identifies a content provider, YouTube, as the source of blasphemous, seditious content and orders, King Canute style, that the Internet tides be stopped. A zealous ISP ignorantly decides the best way to comply with the decree is to re-route all of YouTube's IP addresses to whatever site they thought was more appropriate. The first repercussion was that YouTube disappeared from the Internet for almost an hour. I suspect the second repercussion was that Pakistan's Internet access crawled to a halt as all of a sudden they were handling IP requests for one of the busiest sites in the world. As of this writing YouTube has announced more granular routes so that at least in the US they supercede the routes announced by PieNet. The rest of the world is still struggling. So, while working on a fix that will filter out the spurious route announcements, PCCW has found it necessary to shut down Pakistan's Internet access. The leadership of Pakistan just created a massive Denial of Service on their own country.

From the page: ""Series of tubes" is an analogy used by United States Senator Ted Stevens to describe the Internet in the context of network neutrality.[1] On June 28, 2006, he used this metaphor to criticize a proposed amendment to a committee bill. The amendment would have prohibited Internet service providers from charging fees to give some companies higher priority access to their networks or their customers. This metaphor (along with several other odd choices of words) was widely ridiculed as demonstrating Stevens' poor understanding of the Internet, although some scientists defended the analogy of tubing, and broadband connections have frequently been described as "fat pipes"."

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Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.

[...] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.[2]
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what gets me about this is that he was in the middle of trying to make an argument about "Net Neutrality"

thats like someone trying to explain brain surgery that doesnt know how to carve a turkey.

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