Last week, Iran joined the ranks of awful countries that block YouTube. It makes me kind of mad. Iran isn't a very good country, it turns out. I don't mind that they're trying to build a nuke that could kill me and everyone I hold dear, but YouTube is serious business, and I can't respect any nation that prevents her citizens from using it. They also block tons of blogs and basically any website that speaks ill of the current regime. How awful.
The thing is, Iran is a vibrant, youthful country that would benefit from a little more open dialog. I mean, last week Chad imposed some hard-core censorship, but they only did it to stem the massive bloodshed that's spilling into their country from Sudan. But Iran doesn't have those concerns. It's really a pretty stable place. Go figure.

I tried to read a .ichat file, and it basically wasn't worth it at all. The file was just full of all these awful, unreadable characters. Why can't ichat just be reasonable for a change?
The worst part is, it was a conversation between a pretty young internet girl and a post-middle-aged man about something really boring and possibly academic. It sort of reminds me of the Dateline-NBC pedasnatchers. I wonder if she's involved with the Pervert Justice team?
I guess eventually I'll read it. I just don't have the time or energy right now, and I won't for at least 5 hours or so.
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