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Iran Cracks Down on Internet Sites
Dan Brickley writes "It appears that Iranian ISPs have been ordered to block a large number of popular Web sites, including weblogging, community, chat and email services. Web (particularly weblog) use has been increasing rapidly in Iran, with 64000+ weblogs published by Iranians via various sites. As of today, if the news is correct, the majority of these may be inaccessible to their authors, as will the email (eg. Yahoo) services they use to communicate with friends, colleagues and family worldwide. See stop.censoring.us and hoder.com for more details. The newly expanded blocks include PersianBlog, Blogger and the Google-hosted Orkut 'social networking' site, where Iranians come third after Brazil and USA, representing 7% of all users. How can we get our Iranian friends back in the Web?"
We could invade and liberate them. We're right next door. Then the Iranians could write about how happy they are on their blogs.
So, is it worth killing and dying to get these people their rights back? GWB already has a hardon for the arabs; this might be a good excuse. Now all we need is some satalite imagery of packets being blocked.
Let's send the kids of poor people over to Iran to die and free thoes packets! GWB already loves sequels; look at Gulf War 2 as an example. He could go talk to Sadam and figure out how he fucked up in the Iran/Iraq war. Then GWB could launch an invasion of Iran from Iraq. It'll be just like the 80s agian. Only this time, USians will be dying.
I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.
Well, just bomb them into democracy. This worked in Vietnam, Korea and Iraq, so I guess another campaign of liberation and christening by our American friends will do the trick once more.
Reports are in that Billy Mathews's, age 12, mother is blocking access to certain sites she deems inapropriate. "He was really into this Slashdot thing where they show pictures of a grown man's (deleted) being spread open. And don't forget that porn... it'll make him go blind." she was reported as saying.
Billy was unavailable for comment but his press secretary released this statement: "Thats fine, when I'm 18 I'm so gonna look at all the porn I want. Until then I'll just use anonymous proxies. lol!!!!!111 omg wtf shes coming in my room... [end of signal]".
can't sleep slashdot will eat me
About a billion people saw that blurry nipple. We have obscenity laws. Just think, criticizing Islam in Great Britain might get you thrown in jail. In Sweden if you say that homosexuality is a sin then you may get thrown in jail. I'm sorry, the US(well maybe Canada) is still the most free country when it comes to the freedom to offend.
Think we could Slashdot the Great Firewall of China while we're at it? ;-)
Hmm...
The president tells me that we have freedom. That we love freedom. That others hate freedom. That we must force them to embrace freedom. That we must make those who choose to live their lives differently understand what freedom is all about.
That's good enough for me.
Your "freedom" of speech might cause people to doubt that. It would actually hurt freedom. You don't want to do that, do you?
Are you a freedom hater?