Iran Continues to Censor Internet Communications

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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Re:Ain't nuthin' propa about your propaganda!

[Anonymous Coward]

Check!

Re:The Time to Bomb Iran has Come

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean 'In the name of Israel' No doubt the only ones benefitting from this (Like the Iraq war) That's the only reason you hear American media propaganda like this all the time.