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

Have they gotten to /.?

[bucketoftruth]

Clearly if I'm getting a frist psot on /. then they've gotten to us to!

Re:Let's do it right this time.

[MRe_nl]

http://www.whatwouldsatando.com/Newpages/rants/mcshit.html
Above: Authorities take Ronald McDonald away after they find evidence of his crimes against humanity. Crimes including. Hitler-esque, ritualistic slaughter of millions of animals, Subliminally tricking parents into feeding absolute garbage to their children, and posing as someone who gives a fuck about anything other that "a few billion more sold."

In short,
BurgerKing FTW!;)

First post from Iran

[noidentity]

I would have been first but I'm posting from Iran.

Re:Proxification?

[Loomismeister]

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

Do have Comcast in Iran?

[Anonymous Coward]

If so, that would explain everything.

Re:Proxification?

[tuxgeek]

Aw, come on man, carpet bombing is good clean fun

Right up there with dropping a nuke on someone else's city

"bread and circuses" - encourage p2p use!

[plasmacutter]

They're doing it wrong.

they should encourage p2p software use, increase the bandwidth, then everyone will stay home watching lost or house.

Re:"Not on their end and not a technical glitch"

[khallow]

You are aware that the US has been running terror attacks inside Iran ever since the Bush administration, right?

No, we are not aware of this. I suspect after you enlighten us, we will find that you aren't aware of any such attacks either.

Re:Important to remember:

[MrNaz]

Yea, but then what would you call a revolution? Putting down your teacup with a clatter, standing up abruptly, saying in a stern voice "Good DAY to you sir!" and storming out?