In Iran, Blogging May Be Punishable By Death

An anonymous reader writes "In Iran, crimes such as apostasy (leaving a religion, in this case Islam) and armed robbery are already punishable by death, but a new bill in Iran aims to add to the list 'establishing weblogs and sites promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy,' effectively giving the government a free hand in silencing bloggers. The internet is widely used in Iran, despite its previous attempts at censorship. Will this change as the censorship grows more rampant?"

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>People hate living under a dictatorship, but they hate living under foreign occupation even more.

What makes you think that an asshole with an accent is different from an asshole without an accent.

It is just easier to point fingers.

Also I had the opportunity to get a slight taste of both at the same time and I find the fact that you live in a dictatorship perpetrated by your own people and the occupiers sucks more as when your country is occupied by people who at least mean well.

I have the impression that the US was successful in spreading the idea of the free world because they so far supported nations who were industrially at a similar level as the US just not socially.

Iran and Iraq are at least at a level where they are able to support a reasonable level of education. So what is wrong about enabling them to become democratic.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:World_literacy_map_UNHD_2007_2008.png)