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Iran Launches Cyber-Police Units
Khopesh writes "Iran is implementing a cyber police force to combat social networks and similar sources of 'espionage and riots.' This will likely result in more control over internet access than efforts that might hinder attacks like Stuxnet. 'Ahmadi Moghaddam said that Iran's cyber police will take on the "anti-revolutionary" dissident groups that used online social networks to organize protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad following disputed elections held in 2009. "Through these very social networks in our country, anti-revolutionary groups and dissidents found each other and contacted foreign countries and triggered riots," said Ahmadi Moghaddam, referring to the protests that took place at the time.'"
anti-revolutionary
Heh. They don't seem to want to admit that they are the status quo now.
Those seeking to over throw them would be the revolutionary ones.
We all know in our western democratic society such thing as cyber police is unthinkable! (Rolls eyes)
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Are they hiring?
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Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool.
The Russians carried on using "counter-revolutionary" as an insult well past the time when the 1917 Revolution led to the Communists being in power.
The Soviets used "counter-revolutionary" as a charge that could get you sent to the Gulag or worse.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell