Censorship

Self-censorship? I'm all for it. You can probably guess how I feel about government censorship. Today I received a message from my closest email buddy, pleading that I let the world know that Iran Telecommunications has blocked Iranians' access to Orkut (a social networking service where we met). She was moved to express herself with a four-letter word, which I suspect is a profoundly unusual action for this Muslim woman. Hasty research uncovered an entry at Iranmania about the issue. The website is probably overloaded by now. According to some, the Iranian powers are blocking the wildly popular Persian Blog, as well as blogs at Blogspot (another holding of the Google empire) and more. Are they protecting Iranians from evil Western influences? Preventing them from speaking out against their government? It's certain they are preventing Western minds like mine from a better understanding of the Muslim mind.

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