YouTube and NYTimes Blocked by Iran

Posted by: Heather Green on December 05

Reporters Without Borders reports that the Internet baby and the Gray Lady have both been added to Iran’s blacklist of sites that are blocked. That, according to Reporters Without Borders assessment, means that Iran’s censorship policies coming to ressemble those of China, regarded as being the most stringent.

The organization says it’s been running tests since Dec. 1 and that both sites have been inaccesible since then. Apparently the NYTimes has been intermittently blocked in the past, but now that block looks permanent.

It’s interesting to see these two companies in the same press release about censorship. Paired together here we have the old media, and the established means it has to roil governments, and new media and its newfound power to spread information and perspectives.

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