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Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube just isn't making a lot of friends these days. Viacom Inc.'s (NYSE: VIA) suing, network's are mad, and now a country has banned the video-sharing website. Again. According to Winai Yoosabai, head of the censorship unit at Thailand's Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, "We have blocked YouTube because it contains a video insulting to our king."

Apparently Thailand banned the site after asking YouTube to remove the offensive video and receiving a curt refusal from the Google-owned company: According to the New York Times, "The clip, crude and amateurish and lasting less than a minute, depicts the king with clown features painted onto his face and an image of feet pasted over his head, an insulting gesture in Thailand."

In March, Turkey blocked the country for a short-time after a video appeared that was insulting to the founder of modern Turkey. A Brazilian court had the site blocked after videos of a famous actress from the country with her lover appeared on the site.

And so, as a patriotic American, I am here to make an impassioned plea to the American government. In recent weeks, numerous videos have appeared on YouTube making fun of one of our nation's most talented and beloved entertainers. I'm speaking, of course, of Sanjaya. Consider this clip of the Sanjaya Anthem. We simply cannot stand for this crude mockery of our national treasure.

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Last updated: July 06, 2009: 12:51 AM

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