Comments on: Iran: Eight website technicians detained since two weeks ago

Iran: Eight website technicians detained since two weeks ago

hoder — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:23:38 -0800

Iran: Eight website technicians arrested in undisclosed location since two weeks ago They are said to have been providing hosting services and other technical support to the editors of the news websites. However, the banned websites are still operating with new addresses on free hosting services such as BlogSpot. Is it not newsworthy for the Western media? This is just the beginning of a major crackdown on Iranian news websites and ISPs after filtering them haven't been successful enough.

By: Outlawyr

Outlawyr — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 04:48:02 -0800

That does it, Friendster has really gone too far this time!

By: smackfu

smackfu — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 06:34:19 -0800

Cute domain name.

By: bobo123

bobo123 — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 09:25:05 -0800

Is it not newsworthy for the Western media? Sadly not really, because it already falls under general repression that is regularly covered (see also Cuba, North Korea) so this sort of thing is hardly surprising. At least if this was happening in, say, Turkey or China you could criticise something like the U.S. providing foreign aid or western companies doing business there. If anything I'm surprised by the number of Iranians that are even on the internet, in that there are Iranian blogs, porn sites and politicial sites around.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 00:22:27 -0800

Nobel Peace Prize-winner Shirin Ebadi on Islamic feminism, living with fear, and losing trust in U.S. foreign policy.