I've had Newbie router admins take out my private routes before on a corporate WAN, but I've not seen an entire country take out an entire website like this. Their actions not only blocked themselves from accessing YouTube, but the entire world.
An action like this needs to be severely punished and it should never be tolerated by the world. I think the appropriate action is to block ALL backbones to Pakistan until the Government pays a fine, apologize for poisoning the BGP tables, and promise never to do it again. If you want to be a part of the Internet, you need to behave.
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