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Iran Continues to Censor Internet Communications

Posted by timothy on from the raise-your-stump-to-object dept.

eldawg writes "Iran has recently been in the news after electing a 'hardliner' president. But even previous 'liberal' Iranian governments have been putting together a sophisticated Internet filtering system to prevent their citizens from visiting 'questionable' websites and censoring dissent. An earlier posting at Slashdot outlined the crackdown on blogs, chat rooms and email communications. A more recent research paper from the OpenNet Initiative provides an update on the censoring activity in Iran. Reports indicate that the Iranian authorities are specifically targetting 'content in the local Farsi language using a filterning second only to China.' We know Cisco has played a large role in bulding the 'Great Firewall of China' but is the Iranian initiative homegrown?"

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  1. Filed under... by Spetiam · · Score: 3, Funny

    This must have been accepted under the "Stuff that matters," because it certainly isn't news...

  2. oh no! by ImaLamer · · Score: 2, Funny

    This just in:

    Tyranny extends to all forms of communication!

    Am I to act suprised?

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  3. Re:Is'nt americas working against Democracy by e9th · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cisco just wanted to be able to say they built the "Great Firewall of China"

  4. Opressive regimes by raider_red · · Score: 4, Funny

    So this is almost as oppressive as, say, Utah?

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  5. /. iran by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    would slashdotting iran be considered an act of war? who cares, gimme a link.

  6. Re:Ain't nuthin' propa about your propaganda! by superpulpsicle · · Score: 2, Funny

    If an American is christian and don't support Bush, doesn't mean he/she is a dumbass. At least I hope you were kidding, since not supporting Bush is automatically +20 IQ... now that I am not kidding.