Freemasons & Iran Don’t Heart YouTube

• December 4th, 2006 | Video Sharing

YouTube has been a total revelation in the online video sharing sphere, so much so that it has actually began to affect the amount of time people spend watching traditional television according to a report released last week.

However, it seems that the secretive Mason organization have a bone to pick with the popular video sharing site.  For a while now the Masons have been using the internet and video conferencing technology to hold remote meetings between different lodges.  However, they have reportedly been having concerns about hackers gaining access to their conference and finding out how to do the secret handshake distributing it online. Information Liberation reports that the Masons have been using video conferencing to teach Masons in other lodges how to take part in rituals, but have become wary of the fact that unless they take more precautions they are open to attack.

Likewise, YouTube has fallen ill in Iran along with other popular websites such as the all-corrupting Amazon.com among others.  Visitors to any of the banned banned websites are now greeted with a message telling then that it is prohibited.  Last month Iran was named on the list of thirteen countries deemed enemies of the internet by Reporters Without Borders.