To tell the truth, I couldn't care less what people eat. It's their business. Hindu Indians forbidden eating beef, Jews and Muslims won't eat pork. Some tribal people in central Africa think eating fish is disgusting. Every culture has some "norm" of their own. Keep an open mind is the better idea. I respect everyone's culture and religion practice.
Youtube is indeed blocked. Most other sites are not. All the major news site, wikipedia, etc. are available here.
I still ended up paying for a high bandwidth proxy server located in CA for watching Netflix. Not because it is blocked here, but rather Netflix does not have the license to send movie data to anywhere outside of the U.S. But that is another topic.