I'm probably going to to with "well intentioned human f*ck up" here, rather than government conspiracy (although, of course, governments are of course amazingly dumb when it comes to tech and the Internet). Why? Because any self-respecting gov easily has the ability to hack better/deeper/quieter than messing with BGP routes which the whole world can easily see. Want to quietly divert traffic without being noticed? Just hack MPLS or other layer 2 routes between locations and divert traffic that way quietly. You could bounce traffic to anywhere in the world (and maybe back again) and no-one would notice as it wouldn't appear at the IP layer. Or hack underwater fibre cables. Oh, wait...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
