[ NNSquad ] Re: Pakistan access to YouTube restored after "blasphemous"vid removed

[Barry Gold <bgold@matrix-consultants.com>]

Fred Reimer wrote:
> ...Google/YouTube may have made the decision to
> comply with the laws or regulations of Pakistan in order to continue to do
> business there, that's their prerogative.
...
> The fix for that is not net neutrality, but rather various steps that your
> government can take to change the government in other countries.  This can
> be anything from a message of strong disapproval by your government
> officials, to sanctions on particular items, to a total embargo, to an
> invasion.


In this particular case, I think the appropriate response is a large 
number of messages telling Google/YouTube that we think their response 
was inappropriate, especially for a firm with the motto, "Don't be evil".

And, frankly, I'm starting to think that the appropriate response to 
some of these pipsqueak countries -- that think they should be able to 
set rules for the whole internet -- is an internet death sentence.  Stop 
routing packets to and from those countries.  This should be led by the 
US and followed by Canada, Europe and Japan.  If they want their own 
little internet with no "objectionable" content, let them have it, but 
keep them out of the global network.

  [ Now now, let's not start lobbing death sentences around like
    footballs.  But this story does bring together a number of
    key issues that touch on network neutrality in one way or another.
    I'll expand on this in the next message coming down the line ...

            -- Lauren Weinstein
               NNSquad Moderator ]