Notice Advisory to Galileo Users (NAGU)
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IIRC the one with the biggest fallout was some Pakistani ISP which fucked up a YouTube block order - they broadcasted the null-route to the entire Internet and Google couldn't do anything, lol.
I never heard the 'Pakistan shutting off Youtube globally'-story, so for those equally interested:
http://www.renesys.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/nanog43-hi...
With regards to the topic of political favor, this is an interesting read on where US government went to the Dutch government to pressure ASML in buying Mapper, which was at risk being auctioned off to China. The article is in Dutch so a translation might be necessary by your favorite translation tool: https://archive.is/jmpmU