Egypt's top court orders temporary suspension of YouTube

Freedom of speech is precious, just not everywhere.

For totalitarian regimes to remain in power they need to suppress opposition. One way to do that is to restrict media and what they're able to print and broadcast.

Egypt is similar to authoritarian regimes found in Turkey, North Korea, Iran, Russia and others in its attempts to limit what people can say. In the US parts of the NRA are trying to limit media criticism of their extreme positions on the 2nd Amendment, curiously claiming the 2nd Amendment trumps the 1st.

@the Fu Freedom of speech is precious, just not everywhere.

Sadly that's becoming increasingly true. Look at the US where Trump and his supporters attack a free, for-profit press daily. For authoritarian regimes to rule, they first need to limit any criticism of them.