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Iran Suspends Google's Email Service
appl_iran writes "Iran's telecommunications agency announced that it would be suspending Google's email services permanently, saying it would roll out its own national email service." From the short WSJ article that is kernel of this Reuters story: "An Iranian official said the measure was meant to boost local development of Internet technology and to build trust between people and the government." Funny way to go about that. Updated 20100211 9:54GMT by timothy: Original link swapped for a more appropriate, updated one.
Let me fix that:
Google plays nice with the CIA and NSA.
Google plays nice with dictatorships and oppressive regimes.
Just dictatorships and oppressive regimes have worked out the social networking side of color revolutions and have two options
Block the outside evil and build own with people who understand like Nokia Siemens.
Infiltration, but thats a long slow option and did not work well for 1980's Eastern Europe.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
The UN is run by the five permanent members of the Security Council.
The United Nations Security Council 'power of veto' refers to the veto power wielded solely by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, and United States), enabling them to prevent the adoption of any 'substantive' draft Council resolution, regardless of the level of international support for the draft.
And as far as opposing human rights, there are a scant few who can avoid being hypocrites. America has the death penalty, the western world's highest incarceration rate, an indigenous population that still lives in abject poverty, and has invaded dozens of nations with regular and covert military operations. As for the Chinese, the Russians, the British, and the French, you were allowed to learn about their human rights abuses, so I don't need to outline them.
I never said there weren't issues. I said most people citing it have no idea what they're citing.
The Constitution of the United States opens with "We the People". Is that to suggest the Constitution refers to its member citizens, or all people living on our soil?
The distinction that the Constitution applies to citizens only, or everyone is not exactly clear.
http://blindscribblings.com - Tasty pop-culture in conceptual fashion.
well how would you feel if you were a country that was just trying to provide the most wholesome kind of social system possible (as laid out by God himself!), and all your people were using the internet for was bad-mouthing your attempts to fight the righteous battle against the vile corruption from the West that was threatening to engulf your poor country?
I tried to put myself into the shoes of an Iranian fundamentalist, to get perspective on the issue, and for a minute it made sense. I was going to share the insight I gained, and explain why this was needed... but just then a woman walked past and I lost control of my bowels in fear, preventing me from enlightening you all.