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Iran Cracks Down on Internet Sites

Posted by michael on from the no-blog-for-you dept.

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?"

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  1. Well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We could invade and liberate them. We're right next door. Then the Iranians could write about how happy they are on their blogs.

    1. Re:Well by Schemat1c · · Score: 4, Funny

      We could invade and liberate them. We're right next door. Then the Iranians could write about how happy they are on their blogs.

      Take a look at our current troop deployment. If this was a game of Risk it would be inevitable. Of course we should hurry up before Iran gets another card.

      --

      "Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." - Unknown
  2. Iranians our friends now? by liangzai · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

  3. Re:So blogs are offline... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    Even in America, the second one will invite the secret police to your door.
    Bullshit. All it'll get you is... tenure
  4. Freedom by eMartin · · Score: 2, Funny

    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?