Iran net nanny blocks YouTube and Wikipedia
IRAN has shut down access to some of the world's most popular websites.
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Users were unable to open popular sites including Amazon.com and YouTube on Sunday, following instructions to filter them.
Similar edicts have been issued against the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, the online film database IMDb.com and The New York Times site. Attempts to open the sites are met with a page that reads: "The requested page is forbidden."
The clampdown was ordered by judiciary officials in the latest phase of a campaign in which high-speed broadband facilities have been banned in an attempt to impede "corruption" by foreign films and music.
The curbs are in line with a campaign by Iran's Islamist President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to purge the country of Western influences.
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