If a Pakistani ISP knocked YouTube off the air by accident this weekend, what could a largish bribe to a small country/ISP manage - or a country tat wanted to engage in information warfare?

Many users around the world could not access the YouTube site for about two hours on Sunday. The company blamed the outage on erroneous routing information introduced by a Pakistani Internet service provider. Pakistani authorities ordered ISPs there to block the site on Friday.

Traffic to YouTube was misrouted for around two hours, rendering the site inaccessible for many users around the world, YouTube said on Monday.

I suspect that a lot of potential bad actors paid attention to this...

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