Iran Cracks Down on Bloggers

Wired News is reporting that dozens of Iranian Bloggers have been met with harassment by the government and some have even been arrested for voicing dissenting views in recent history. The article takes a look at some of the bloggers who are fighting for their rights and how. From the article: "The Iranian blogging community, known as Weblogistan, is relatively new. It sprang to life in 2001 after hard-liners -- fighting back against a reformist president -- shut down more than 100 newspapers and magazines, and detained writers. At the time, Derakhshan posted instructions on the internet in Farsi on how to set up a weblog."

Comments

Sad but true

[liliafan]

Sadly there will always be governments looking to restrict the speech of its people, I wonder how long it will take for google to move in an support those efforts?

Re:Sad but true

[Ravenscall]

You stole my comment!

It is funny though, for a company that says don't be evil, they certainly like to support evil empires.

Re:On a related note:

[thrillseeker]

What can those of us that are outside [overtly] restrictive regimes (such as Iran, China and Saudi Arabia) do to help ordinary 'net users there express their experiences and opinions to the outside world?

Join the U.S. Marines.

Riddle me this then

[GuloGulo]

How can you make a comparison between a single Church (which, by the way, is exercising it's rights under the Constitution, something which they wouldn't be allowed to do in Iran because they're the wrong religion) and the entire government of a country?

It sickens me sometimes how far people will twist reality in order to demonstrate some supposed equivalency.