My first thought was, of course not! After all, America is supposed to be the land of free speech and so on.

But when I thought about it some more, I remembered that the channel lineup back in Lebanon includes al-Manar TV, which is Hezbollah’s TV channel.

It’s nothing special; it’s mostly just advice shows and news brodcasts. But the neocon lobby went nuts in America back in 2004 and got it banned. If you are a satellite carrier or anything like that, it’s actually illegal for you to broadcast al-Manar into the US.

However, a Slingbox is not a commercial broadcast.

Would it be legal for me to use a Slingbox to watch TV from Lebanon even though al-Manar is included in the channel lineup?

I mean, you can watch al-Manar on their website, too, so, it shouldn’t be a big deal.