Yet millions of Iranians chafe under irksome limits to their freedom and blame their country's international isolation on bellicose posturing by Mr Ahmadinejad.
Western scholars may chafe at rules that control access to official government documents, but they are nothing compared to the restrictions on information that exist in the Middle East.
Also, not being able to listen to it on the Internet without getting hit for an extra three bucks per month is a bit of a chafe, but I have yet to cancel.