Iran Slows Internet Access Before Student Protests

RiffRafff writes "Iran is at it again, pre-emptively slowing or cutting Internet access before anticipated student protests." From the article: "Seeking to deny the protesters a chance to reassert their voice, authorities slowed Internet connections to a crawl in the capital, Tehran. For some periods on Sunday, Web access was completely shut down — a tactic that was also used before last month's demonstration. The government has not publicly acknowledged it is behind the outages, but Iran's Internet service providers say the problem is not on their end and is not a technical glitch."

Comments

Re:Proxification?

[easyTree]

living in the US is fantastic and we enjoy more freedom than most of the world.

Mainly because you're {carpet bombing / have invaded / are occupying / are paying a terrorist state to occupy/invade/carpet bomb} every other country but your own.

Re:Let's do it right this time.

[easyTree]

Maybe if the Americans stopped breaking International Law - the Iranians could be left in peace - there'd be no need for wave after wave of propaganda to set public opinion before the clearly-approaching action against Iran.

Iran has every right to pursue its interests - it's signed the non-proliferation treaty (unlike Israel which has masses of US nuclear weapons on its soil, again, against International Law).

Stop 'buying into' this shit as you guys say.

kthx.

America is sowing the seeds of terrorism in every country around the world - clearly this includes non-muslim/-arab states - where would you be if even 1% of the horrors you've committed/sponsored against the rest of the world came back to you? hint: horrors beyond your imagining; hundreds/thousands of times worse than 911, again and again. For fuck's sake - stop reading your government-controlled propaganda - New York Times etc and start controlling your 'leaders'.

Re:Let's do it right this time.

[easyTree]

Presumably you're on of the ghouls profiting from invading foreign countries or maybe one of the brainwashed sheep who doesn't realise what the US is upto?

Re:The Grotesquely Ugly Truth

[MrNaz]

Ancient times, it bears repeating, are over, past, kaput, done, no longer applicable.

Ancient times are the only place you'll find examples of Sharia law. Criticising modern Muslim nations is not a critique of Sharia law, rather, it's a critique of tinpot dictators who Muslims do not want or support, and who we wish the US would stop funding so that we could deal with them ourselves. As it is, we can't overthrow idiots like the Saudi royals because they get enormous military support from the US in return for cheap oil. You want freedom in the middle east? Easy. Leave, and we'll sort it out. You, personally, were deployed to KSA on a "friendly basis". You, personally, helped prop up that morally bankrupt regime. You, personally, have no right to then criticize Muslims for having morally bankrupt leaders because you, personally are part of the problem.

There are zero Muslim countries where one has the freedoms we expect in the secular West.

You lost your ability to talk about freedom the minute your government started with the PATRIOT act and the rest of that silliness. The US is no freer than China or those other countries you like knocking on, your government just has better PR spinners. What with NSA having the capability that it does, and the CIA spying on everyone these days regardless of its international only mandate, you're probably more watched than Iranians.