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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. My fav part.. by xTMFWahoo · · Score: 2, Funny

    "disturbing the public mind"

    talk about no free speach- oh yeah it's IRAN

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  2. woohoo! by nocomment · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now we have 6 people in Iran who wish the we (US) would invade. Won't be long now.

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    1. Re:woohoo! by Kick+the+Donkey · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I'm sure John Ashcroft is thinking "If only I could do that kind of thing here..."

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    2. Re:woohoo! by bugg · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Not really, considering he's done it. See the case of Sherman Austin.

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  3. The Onion Invades Slashdot? by eyepeepackets · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do I understand this right? In a country ruled by dark age religious nutcases, six people who said something against said nutcases get arrested?

    Hmmm, go figure. I would think they'd be tortured or dismembered or the like, but simply arrested?

    Those Iatoldyas need to get their act together: They're not going to put the fear of their god into the populace by simply arresting a few wordy wankers.

    And they need me to tell them this? Sheesh.

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  4. The only surprise... by DesScorp · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...is that the regime waited this long to crack down on the bloggers. Expect much, much worse to come. Hey, after all, this is the regime that executed a teenage girl for the crime of making smartassed comments to religous authorities.

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  5. 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.