Iran Runs From YouTube

December 6, 2006 at 10:16 am

The bad news:

Iran has blocked access to the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube.com, and a media rights group warned that Internet censorship in that country is on the rise. Internet users in Iran who tried to call up the YouTube site got the message “On the basis of the Islamic Republic of Iran laws, access to this Web site is not authorized,” which also appears on numerous opposition and pornographic Web sites that the government blocks.

The good news: Iranians are a plucky, information-starved people.  The mullahs also ban satellite dishes, but millions of Iranians have them.  Witness the top of this Tehran apartment building:

Iran Tehran satellite dish

I give the Iranian people a short period of time before they outfox the mullahs and get YouTube back.

December 6, 2006 at 10:16 am - - Filed under Iran  YouTube

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