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No one likes “The Song That Never Ends,” but I’m starting to think it’s less annoying than YouTube’s ongoing difficulties in Turkey and Thailand.  Google’s video-sharing site is once again banned in the first country, and is facing a ban in the second.

The cases are unrelated, although there are similarities - videos insulting Ataturk and the king of Thailand are behind the longstanding problems.  Of course, it’s also YouTube’s users - not YouTube itself - who are behind the problems, but the Turkish and Thai governments appear to have trouble understanding (or caring about) this fact.

YouTube’s willing to skip a discussion of the matter, however; a Reporters Without Borders article relayed, “YouTube issued a statement saying it was ready to cooperate with the authorities in order to resolve the problem.”  That statement was in reference to the Turkish ban, but it’s reasonable to believe a similar approach will be taken in Thailand.

And as always, Reporters Without Borders and other free speech advocates are upset about it.  “Reporters Without Borders condemns a court ruling on 18 September ordering Internet Service Providers to block access to the video-sharing website,” the organization announced.

We’ve heard it all before from both sides.  Unfortunately, there’s no reason to believe that we won’t soon hear it all again.