Internet in Iran: a new report by NPR
December 4, 2004 3:42 PM   Subscribe

 
IranianFilter can't be far behind.
posted by dawiz at 4:41 PM on December 4, 2004


iranFilter?
posted by Utilitaritron at 5:50 PM on December 4, 2004


hoder, I heard that story and thought of you.
posted by Sidhedevil at 7:35 PM on December 4, 2004


I didn't see any of the poorer areas of Iran while I was there, but the access to the internet the upper crust had wasn't exactly spectacular either- obviously I'm spoiled but I was going crazy waiting minutes for each website to load.
The calling cards are inconvenient to use and are almost always busy to the point that my family members over there had five or six of them at a time so that they could almost always have access.
While us here in the States and ostensibly anywhere else with high-speed internet access use the internet primarily as a distraction, Iranians use it as a tool- for objective news reporting they can't get elsewhere; to find people they aren't allowed to meet in public to go on dates with, and to keep in touch with the iranian diaspora all over the world- in Orkut, for example, Iranians are the third largest nationality on the site. I was surprised when I joined and found almost all of my cousins already on it.
I didn't actually see any CoffeeNets while I was there because I was busy on a whirlwind tour and visiting family members I hadn't seen in ten years, but from what I was told, they are ubiquitous and popular hangouts for teenagers.
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 12:14 AM on December 5, 2004


So, some of these people who use the Internet are, Iranian?
posted by crasspastor at 5:00 AM on December 5, 2004


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