Iran Blocks Access to YouTube

The government of Iran has blocked internet access to YouTube.com for the past five days reports press rights group Reporters Without Borders. They also said that the New York Times and Wikipedia have been blocked recently, but this could not be confirmed. The groups says that "censorship is now the rule rather than the exception" in Iran.

Such censorship is really nothing new in places of the world like Iran. I supposed we should be happy that the government allows as much access as they do. I can only hope that we do not see the US go down this path, as some have advocated in the past. My favorite censorship moment might be when AOL tried to stop people from speaking Spanish.