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Grand Ayatollah Says High Speed Internet Is "Against Moral Standards"

Posted by samzenpus on from the slow-it-down dept.

An anonymous reader writes A Grand Ayatollah in Iran has determined that access to high-speed and 3G Internet is "against Sharia" and "against moral standards." However, Iran's President, Hassan Rouhani, plans to renew licenses and expand the country’s 3G cellular phone network. A radical MP associated with the conservative Resistance Front, warned: “If the minister continues to go ahead with increasing bandwidth and Internet speed, then we will push for his impeachment and removal from the cabinet.” “We will vigorously prevent all attempts by the [communication] minister to expand 3G technology, and if our warnings are not heeded, then the necessary course of action will be taken,” he added.

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  1. Maybe it would be good if the Ayatollah wins? by ikedasquid · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Imagine if 3G (and "4G") was found to somehow be illegal in the US - I think there'd be a revolt. A good enough chunk of the nation expects to get FB updates and cat vids on demand anywhere they go. Maybe Iran is the same? It seems backwards, but I think this is the kind of thing that gets the average person to actually care about something. No cat vids = Arab spring in Iran? Maybe?

    1. Re:Maybe it would be good if the Ayatollah wins? by dryeo · · Score: 4, Interesting

      You mean like in Syria where the end result has been ISIS? The Iranian people are actually moving towards more freedom on their own. They've voted in a pretty liberal (for that part of the world) President, they have more religious freedoms then most of that part of the world and isn't much different in some ways as American allies such as Saudi Arabia where they have morals police who will execute you on the spot and women have even less rights then Iranian women.
      It's all a weird game where our friends are just as bad as our enemies, just that there is a lot of propaganda from both sides.

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  2. Wait a minute by viperidaenz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Where in the Koran does it mention bandwidth? or the speed in which information is made available, since it has nothing to do with what information is available, just the connection speed?

  3. Temptation by jklovanc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It is interesting that one of the basis of most religions is the freedom to choose. Most religions allow people to choose to do good or choose not to. Why does the Muslim religion seem to want to control everything? Conversion by force, death sentence for converting to another religion, hiding women's bodies so not to tempt men and now censorship. What would a religion have to force it's followers to conform? What proves a person's faith is the ability to resist temptation. Look at the trials of Job. If the people need to be "protected" from temptation then their faith is weak.

  4. Re:If the Grand Ayatollah's against it.... by sumdumass · · Score: 5, Interesting

    About as well as it did the last time..

    You see, letters in the hebrew language are also numbers. There is no W so V is used in it's place or in other words, V and W are interchangeable. It so happens that V is also 6 so when you type www, you are typing 666. That's right, every time to go on the World Wide Web, you are paying homage to the beast.

    That was the early rallying cry to why the internet was evil and should be removed. Of course some people who actually knew better checked up on those facts and it turns out a little different.

  5. Re:If the Grand Ayatollah's against it.... by Nyder · · Score: 4, Interesting

    About as well as it did the last time..

    You see, letters in the hebrew language are also numbers. There is no W so V is used in it's place or in other words, V and W are interchangeable. It so happens that V is also 6 so when you type www, you are typing 666. That's right, every time to go on the World Wide Web, you are paying homage to the beast.

    That was the early rallying cry to why the internet was evil and should be removed. Of course some people who actually knew better checked up on those facts and it turns out a little different.

    Except that 666 isn't the number of the beast, it's actually 616. Google it, number of sources other then the one I put down.

    http://theologica.ning.com/pro...

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  6. Re:If the Grand Ayatollah's against it.... by theVarangian · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In general, there are 4 stages to Islamic conquest.

    1) When they are a tiny minority they only want to live, and worship, in peace.

    2) Once they are a bigger minority, they start demanding special laws to respect their religion and culture. This is happening in many European nations right now. These special laws may directly oppose fundamental rights in western countries.

    3) Once they are a sizable minority: they drop the mask, and the gloves come off. Time to violently overthrow the existing religion and culture. This has been going on throughout Islamic history. This is going on in Thailand right now.

    4) Once Muslims are in charge, it is no different than any other mid-east nation.

    Even getting to stage 2 is too much for many Americans. Lots of Americans do not want to give up stuff like freedom of speech, or freedom of press, freedom of religion.

    You just described the rise of Christianity in the Roman empire.