There is only one broadband provider (QTel) in the country of Qatar (home of Al Jazeera TV), and all Internet traffic is routed through one IP address in an effort to stifle free speech and block content. So when Wikipedia decided to ban that IP address for twelve hours to try and stop a flood of vandalism, a scuff up ensued over Wikipedia policy. Slashdot and Techcrunch quickly reported that Wikipedia had somehow intentionally blocked the whole country of Qatar, resulting in an Internet-wide, largely uninteresting digital hissy fit. Ultimately Wikipedia explained that an administrative error was to blame for the 12-hour ban; though the entire affair says more about the idiocy of Qatar trying to retain a strangle-hold on Internet traffic than anything else.