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Iran Moves To End "Facebook Revolution"
We've had a few readers send in updates on the chaotic post-election situation in Iran. Twitter is providing better coverage than CNN at the moment. There are both tech and humanitarian angles to the story, as the two samples below illustrate. First, Hugh Pickens writes with a report from The Times (UK) that "the Iranian government is mounting a campaign to disrupt independent media organizations and Web sites that air doubts about the validity of the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the nation's president. Reports from Tehran say that social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter were taken down after Mr Ahmadinejad claimed victory. SMS text messaging, a preferred medium of communication for young Iranians, has also been disabled. 'The blocking of access to foreign news media has been stepped up, according to Reporters Without Borders. 'The Internet is now very slow, like the mobile phone network. YouTube and Facebook are hard to access and pro-reform sites... are completely inaccessible.'" And reader momen abdullah sends in one of the more disturbing Ask Slashdots you are likely to see. "People, we need your urgent help in Iran. We are under attack by the government. They stole the election. And now are arresting everybody. They also filtered every sensitive Web page. But our problem is that they also block the SMS network and are scrambling satellite TVs. Please, can you help us to set up some sort of network using our home wireless access points? Can anybody show us a link on how to install small TV/radio stations? Any suggestion for setting up a network? Please tell us what to do or we are going to die in the a nuclear war between Iran and US." Update: 06/14 18:32 GMT by KD : Jim Cowie contributes a blog post from Renesys taking a closer look at the state of Iranian Internet transit, as seen in the aggregated global routing tables, and concluding that the story may not be as clear-cut as has been reported.
You're an idiot
I'll laugh when your kids get cancer.
This is my sig.
im another fucking expert. i live next to iran, in a country which has the risk of becoming another iran itself. so, if you do not have a similar situation, either research first, or shut up and listen.
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I was offering opinion and metaphor, while you offered falsely connected statistics. The point of my post was to indicate that election outcomes can often surprise and disappoint. The point of your post was to connect black redneck US voters to the Iranian election. One of us has failed at logic.
Wrong. Removing communications from the people does nothing to destabilise the government. Quite teh opposite, actually.
Not accusing you of being a shill (no no no not at all), but you are very new here, aren't you? Just a coincidence I'm sure.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
What if he won fairly?
Face it, we need a reason to hate the Iran so we can step on it when it goes out of line. What if the whole outcry is staged? I mean, why was there none in 2005 when he won the first time?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
For starters, you need to learn that Americans have the most violent culture of any first world country.
Japan isn't a first world country? Just saying, your claim is hardly a clear cut fact. But then again you're American, in your mind America is always the most X or the least Y.
You just got troll'd!