When Communication Is Taken Away

Most of the world knows that there's trouble in Iran with its citizens.  After an intense election, many of the people seem to think that the election was rigged.  While I will leave that speculation to better political brains than mine, I find the most chilling aspect is that Iran has apparently begun locking down communication by locking down access to social sites like Facebook and stopping SMS messaging on cell phones. (For those interested in some of the technical aspects of the Internet traffic, Reneys has a break down of the routing aspects)

It's times like this I truly am glad I live in America.  I have always been a big believer in freedom of speech and that knowledge is power, and these two things have helped to make the USA the world leader it is today.  While I can lament the many small liberties that have been taken from us in the name of security, I hold strong to the belief that we'll come to our senses before we reach the point where to government will be limiting our speech with each other.