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Iran Is Arresting Models Who Pose Without Headscarves On Instagram (bbc.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Tehran cybercrimes court said the country has arrested eight people working for online modeling agencies deemed to be "un-Islamic." The women models were arrested for starring in photos on Instagram and elsewhere without wearing their headscarves, which has been required in public since 1979. A total of 170 people have been identified by investigators for being involved in online modeling, including 59 photographers and make-up artists, 58 models and 51 fashion salon managers and designers. The court's prosecutor Javad Babaei announced the the threats on TV, claiming modeling agencies accounted for about 20 percent of posts on Instagram from Iran and that they had been "making and spreading immoral and un-Islamic culture and promiscuity." He added, "We carried out this plan in 2013 with Facebook, and now Instagram is the focus."
Iran wasn't so stuck in the past. But then again we have Mein Trump today so it can happen anywhere.
But they were breaking laws.
Stupid laws, yes, but they were being broken.
to turn the comments into a hate filled racist cesspool?
There's no reason at all for this to be here. Just because it says instagram doesn't mean it's tech news and you can troll with this crap.
But in iran this idea is codified in the legal system, its not a fringe idea expressed by a weirdo on an internet forum. That's the difference.
Cops in the US will arrest women for going topless in public. What's the difference?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Both of those regimes are/were messed up in their own special way.
It's too bad that sheeple put up with such tyranny, in either case.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
As mentioned, this *is* a law. But laws can be changed.
Women can be, and have been, elected to national political office in Iran. In fact, 84 of 435 (19.3%) of their national representatives are women. That isn't that great, admittedly, but at least it's--
Oh wait, those are the US house of reps numbers. Our senate has 20 women out of 100 senators, roughly the same ratio.
Meanwhile, Iranian women MPs are 21 of 290, or 7%. But before you argue how backwards that is compared to the US, reflect that it is roughly the representation the US had in the early 1990s.
So there's hope for a more representational government, both for Iran and the US.
Trump is the creation of people like you, that called every mild person you disagreed with Hitler, and thus were all vanquished.
You got exactly what you wanted, all of the mild people banished, and replaced by hard men and women who punch back twice as hard when challenged because it's the only way to stand up to people calling you Hitler - they obviously will not listen to reason, only louder bluster.
It's obviously what you wanted as you worked so hard for this to com to pass. Strange that you sound unhappy.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Good comparison. Obviously the sad puppies or whatever are directly comparable to groups that stone women for things that aren't even crimes here. Everyone who doesn't agree with you is Hitler, right?