begin quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 01:24:47PM -0500: > Apparently Brazil didn't want everyone downloading some racy video that kept > being posted to YouTube so they blocked access to YouTube for entire country. Youtube requires javascript for no good reason. It's a public service to block 'em.
> I suppose you could say it is good to protect young eyes on the Web. Why? It's not like monitors are equipped with sporks or anything. > OTOH, I'm concerned/surprised that it is so easy for a country to block > access to a URL for entire country. That sounds a little creepy. > Is it really that easy? Does this bother anyone else? It helps if you think of the internet as a series of interconnected tubes (!) -- when you only have a handful of "tubes" entering the country, it's easy enough to limit what passes through 'em. That being said, I don't know how many telcom cables Brazil has to other countries. The downside of fewer connections is that a problem can cripple general access, but the upside is that your police can easily, erm, cripple general access. . . -- Have Backhoe, Will Travel. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
