Honestly at the rate our government is going it wouldn't surprise me at all if the us government did the same thing in the near future. if the Protect IP act is passed sites which promote piracy will be erased from the internet, but who's to say that eventually anything that the government doesn't agree with won't be erased from the internet as well. It's a pity that the iranian government is taking steps backwards instead of going forward but our government and many others could one day do the same thing. Freedom is a privilege/right that many take for granted but with the government taking away/treading on many of our rights who's to say that we won't have to worry about the same thing happening here or else where. Just because we fought for our freedom doesn't mean the government won't take it away from us if they deem it necessary to do so.