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Iranian Bloggers Arrested

Posted by michael on from the do-not-blog-do-not-pass-go dept.

XeRXeS-TCN writes "Reuters is reporting that Iranian authorities have arrested at least six Internet journalists and webloggers in recent days, who face charges of 'propagating against the regime, acting against national security, disturbing the public mind and also insulting religious sanctities.'"

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  1. You probably don't say "Internets". by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 3, Informative


    When you are truly interested in a subject, you quickly learn to talk about it in such a way that you know how to pronounce the words and use them in an appropriate way, in a way that other people use them. For example, since you are commenting on Slashdot, you probably don't say "Internets".

    During the vice-presidential debate, Cheney said viewers should go to http://factcheck.com/. He was wrong about two things: 1) First, the web site he meant was http://factcheck.org/, of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenburg Public Policy Center. 2) Second, he was wrong about thinking he would get support from Factcheck.org: Cheney Plugs FactCheck. Instead, the web site truthfully points out the legal troubles of the company.
    The problem is not that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have accents. The problem with Cheney saying "Internets" and "go to Factcheck.com" is that he is out of touch and uncaring.

    Factcheck.org is NOT an honest web site. Instead, it is very slickly dishonest. If you didn't know how to check Factcheck.org's facts, you would not realize that Cheney's involvement with Halliburton is far more corrupt than the first layer of facts cited by Factcheck.org show. Cheney, while he was Secretary of Defense, arranged to change the rules of the Department of Defense so that no-bid contracts would be allowed. Then he arranged that only Halliburton would be allowed to get those contracts.