Someone Forced World Internet Traffic Through Belarus and Iceland

Re:Someone Forced World Internet Traffic Through Belarus and... by Karunamon on Thursday November 21, 2013 @05:06PM (#6777876)

Also, the technically incorrect piece of this article seems pretty minor. I don't understand why some people are getting so worked up about it.

Because the effort it would have taken to not make the mistake is so minimal (Google: BGP, first result is wikipedia, read for a few minutes), that it carries rather unfortunate implications for the author and their attention to detail, and by extension their qualifications as a journalist.

Journalists have an obligation to report factually and correctly to the best of their ability, but they are not infallible.

With the above in mind, I'll bet you $large_amount_of_cash this is never corrected.

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Re:Someone Forced World Internet Traffic Through Belarus and... by mistermann on Saturday November 30, 2013 @01:16PM (#6823926)

> With the above in mind, I'll bet you $large_amount_of_cash this is never corrected.

And you would be correct. It won't get corrected because no one cares, and no one cares because it is inconsequential.

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