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U.S. Funds Anonymizer for Iranians
SiliconEntity writes "British online rag The Register is reporting that the U.S. Government is funding anonymizer.com to provide anonymous browsing services to Iranians. Using U.S. funding, the company created a special version of its anonymizing proxy which has instructions in Farsi and only accepts connections from Iranian IP addresses. The service defaults to the Voice of America web site, but users can input any address and browse free of (Iranian) government censorship."
Only on Slashdot would someone immediately denounce a plan to give more freedom to oppressed Iranian citizens.
This is simply a act of propaganda by the goverment of the United States of America aimed at the people of Iran.
Clearly, they are taking steps so that the next time they "liberate" a country, there will be a slightly higher chance that its people will "wellcome the troops with open arms" instead of march in the street in protest against the invaders.
And as far as military budget spending goes, this is exceptionally friendly. Might even be midly effective too...
You can't take the sky from me...
Huh? Citation? link? reference of any kind? Oh wait, you're an AC spewing FUD. Nevermind. IHBW, IHBT, I will now HAND.
everything in moderation
You talk as if the Chinese sheep need to be educated about the value of democracy by those wonderous purveyors of freedom - the Americans! How stunningly arrogant, particularly these days. The Chinese, given the right tools, will be the ones to bring democracy to China, they don't need Americans to teach them why it is good to be free.
And of course...someone has to mod my last post overrated. They could have modded it offtopic, but they wanted to avoid the Meta-Moderation, so they played it safe.
Hahaha, you ultra liberals crack me up. Your group always supports free speech, except when it's a conservative viewpoint. Then its either ripped apart (as in the anonymous Iranian internet plan), or a conservative comment (then it's modded down -1, without caring if the comment matches the flamebait or overrated description).