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Iran systematically filters political websites

hoder — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:48:09 -0800

Iran systematically filters political websites: In contrast with what the Iranaian President had said in the UN summit on Information Technology last year, the OpenNet Initiative, in its latest bulletin, concludes that "Iran is indeed engaged in extensive Internet content filtering beyond just pornography, including many political, religious, social, and blogging websites.
"Most of these censored websites are Iran-specific; very little non-pornographic, "global" content is filtered from Iranian users. "

By: moonbird

moonbird — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:39:36 -0800

Thank you, hoder, for a post that gives good perspective for the rest of us, and refreshingly has nothing to do with america...

By: mishaco

mishaco — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 21:01:53 -0800

finally ! a reason to attack iran .

By: rushmc

rushmc — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 21:02:29 -0800

Well, they could be censoring their net traffic so we don't find out about the preemptive attack they are preparing against us...

By: Satapher

Satapher — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 22:08:20 -0800

what if they're just planning a suprise party?

By: solistrato

solistrato — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 23:40:47 -0800

Satapher wins!

By: Onanist

Onanist — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 00:52:48 -0800

Australian tv's Foreign Correspondent program recently featured a story called Iran - Cyber Dissidents, which delved into Iranians' relationship with the internet. It started off with an interview of a 24-year-old dissident Iranian blogger whose day job is the running of a government website! Here's the transcript and there's a few links of interest in the synopsis page linked above.

By: scarabic

scarabic — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 02:52:14 -0800

engaged in extensive Internet content filtering beyond just pornography, including many political, religious, social, and blogging websites. Can you say "China?"

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 05:02:28 -0800

Wait, so an oppressive dictatorship is censoring the internet? Now I'm pissed!