Iranian Government Cuts Off Internet Access Again

AlbionTourgee writes "It is reported that Gmail and Yahoo mail at least have been blocked in Iran, along with many English-language sites. While news of demonstrations seems to be getting out of the country, the government appears to be trying to prevent people within Iran from communicating and from learning what's happening. It remains to be seen whether TOR and Freenets can be effective to combat this sort of effort to block communications, and whether the general circulation of information about the protests around the world will help."

Comments

Re:Silly Mudslums

[Anonymous Coward]

My handful of quarters as an atheist who studied these two religions:

You're wrong. I've studied both the bible (several versions of it) as well as the Qur'an. Islam differs from christianity in a very important and fundamental way; it literally and bluntly, with no room for reasoning, divides humanity into two camps: the good (the muslims) and the bad (the 'kafir'; the non-muslims); and literally, page after page, calls for the shedding of the blood of the kafir in the form of "conversion, 'by free will' or 'by sword'". Christianity differs here in the fact that nowhere in its holy scriptures does it divide humanity into camps, and nowhere in its holy scripture does it call for bloodshed of non-christians. What it does, however, is call for the bloodshed of those who DISGRACE and VIOLATE christianity - which is a very important difference to make note of - whereas the Qur'an calls for bloodshed of ANYONE simply not being muslim, regardless the person. (and, no, the christian crusades were not called upon by the bible or the religion itself; the crusades were ages of abuse of the religion, in its own name.)

End rant.

Re:Tor can be blocked as well.

[LWATCDR]

Actually a lot of population of Iran is well educated and some what more liberal than a lot of Arab nations.
You might have seen the protests on the streets a while back. I think you may be under estimating the actually people. Now the current government is lower than what I scrape off my shoe but I think the people are better than you believe.

I got another block story

[Ilgaz]

Iran? The fundamentalist run Islamic republic has banned Yahoo and Google?

Try this, a NATO member, EU member designate, secular (still!) neighbor of Europe and having actual part in Europe country, Turkey has banned Myspace in addition to Youtube today. Yes, Myspace, that "personal blog" or more like "music demo" site.

Keep watching Iran and China though...

Re:Here come moral relativists

[CRCulver]

Oh and BTW, Muslims think it is absolutely unacceptable that American women go to school

Some Muslims. Visit a university in Morocco or Iran and you'll see that they are full of female students, and they and their families remain in good standing with their mosque and community.

Re:We don't care

[kill-1]

These endless conflicts also are not ours.

You might want to read up a little before making such blanket statements. These Wikipedia articles should get you started:

• 1953 Iranian coup d'etat
• Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
• Iranian Revolution
• Iran Air Flight 655

Re:This is their right.

[Shakrai]

Rights, inalienable or otherwise, really don't mean a lot to the person holding all of the guns.

That's why the civilian population should be armed.

You can parrot on about your rights as much as you want, but they'll just shoot you in the head.

Yeah, they can shoot me. They can shoot my neighbor and his neighbor as well. Eventually though the population will start shooting back -- provided we are talking about a country where the population has already been disarmed in the name of "safety" or some other such nonsense.