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How Millions of Iranians Are Evading Internet Censors (msn.com)
schwit1 quotes the Wall Street Journal:
Authorities in Tehran have ratcheted up their policing of the internet in the past week and a half, part of an attempt to stamp out the most far-reaching protests in Iran since 2009. But the crackdown is driving millions of Iranians to tech tools that can help them evade censors, according to activists and developers of the tools. Some of the tools were attracting three or four times more unique users a day than they were before the internet crackdown, potentially weakening government efforts to control access to information online. "By the time they wake up, the government will have lost control of the internet," said Mehdi Yahyanejad, executive director of NetFreedom Pioneers, a California-based technology nonprofit that largely focuses on Iran and develops educational and freedom of information tools.
Wired calls it "the biggest protest movement in Iran since the 2009 Green Movement uprising," criticing tech companies which "continue to deny services to Iranians that could be crucial to free and open communications."
Wired calls it "the biggest protest movement in Iran since the 2009 Green Movement uprising," criticing tech companies which "continue to deny services to Iranians that could be crucial to free and open communications."
How can they protect the Iranian children if they keep challenging attempts to do so?
If Obama were the Muslim Manchurian candidate, what would have have done differently?
Well, he could have knocked off the Libyan government, turning it into a failed state and a haven for fundamentalist Muslim terrorists.
He could have ignored ISIS as it took over Syria and Iraq.
He could have backed a Muslim Brotherhood-led overthrow of the Egyptian government.
He could have shafted the "Arab Spring" uprising, especially in Iran, letting the sitting governments stomp on them.
He could have came up with a deal to give those same medieval Iranian mullahs hundreds of billions of dollars and nuclear weapons.
BUT RUSSIA!!!! TRUMP!!! COLLUSION!!! TREASON!!!
So, millions of Iranians are evading internet blocks and such. In a place where you can go to jail (or be executed) for doing so....
And we're telling the Iranian government how it's being done???
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
A shame they won't be able to hear from our Twitler in chief
Oh, who am I kidding...he's busy golfing at one of his shitholes
> . "By the time they wake up, the government will have lost control of the internet," said Mehdi Yahyanejad, executive director of NetFreedom Pioneers, a California-based technology nonprofit that largely focuses on Iran and develops educational and freedom of information tools.
Not if you keep blabbing about it, dumb ass.
The Iranians are just like the Chinese. A lot of really cool stuff comes out of China. Last Christmas I bought a little miniature reindeer and sleigh set from Walmart. It has cute little hand painted reindeer and Santa in his sleigh full of presents. It has miniature LEDs which light up the reindeers' noses (and even Santa's!). It is so adorable. I put it up on my coffee table. I had a get together for drinks at my apartment the day after Christmas and *everyone* commented on how really cute it was. It brought a lot of joy into my life.
But that sculpture would have been too costly if made here. I think I paid 6 or 7 bucks for it. If that had been made in Compton or Detroit or East St. Louis, the quality would have sucked and it probably would have retailed for over a $100!. In economics there are cost/benefit ratios. If we worried about every hypothetical "problem" which some egg head thought up while grousing around for grant money, we would not make it through the day with our sanity intact.
Take over all telecommunication providers in the country and simply stop outside network access of any kind. Get caught trying to work around it, death penalty.
If the Cloud is someone elses servers, then the Internet is someone elses communications equipment.
" criticing tech companies which 'continue to deny services to Iranians'" Do your research. The Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the countries US companies are forbidden from having business dealings with. If you're unhappy with tech companies not being able to service Iranians, you might want to talk to your representative. Here's a handy list: http://smallbusiness.chron.com...
Tunisia is currently experiencing a popular uprising (again) and violent repression of protesters (again) based on similar economic motivations to Iran but you don't hear the hawks in Washington calling for regime change there. Why is that?
Debate is a form of harassment. Do not question my truth.
It's free to use and free of ads and malware - I assume that "Psiphon" isn't, since they mention how much government crackdowns help their marketing.
Goddam mods are up-voting a dig at Obama?
Take the fucking political bias (any at all) out or I'm going dark.
No wonder we have so many goddam AC.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
If you want to look for crazy mullahs, you're looking at the wrong muslim state. Yes, the Iran is vocal and you get to hear a lot about their rhetoric, but if you're looking for funding for Islamist schools, Islamist mosques and yes, Islamist terrorists, you should be looking for the only country on this planet that still doesn't have a name and is basically called "The land of family Saud".
Funny how our politicians never seem to have any kind of problem with this particular country and how they even used whatever political influence necessary to stop investigations against this country whenever the trail to terrorist activities gets too hot to ignore anymore. No matter what side of the political fence they might be sitting on.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Look, wake up to yourselves. Nobody buys the propaganda any more. What Trump says is exactly what the US has done for decades. Democracy and justice, nope, turning countries into shit holes that US corporations can ruthlessly exploit, stealing the resources and using slave labour to do it. A straight up continuation of imperialistic policies from the monarchists, unlike the Belgies cutting off hands the US fires missiles from drones into unsuspecting populations when their obedience quotient falls short.
Trump has been a breath of fresh air, or is that just the true miasma from the shadow government swamp, the truth about the reality US foreign policy for all to see. People are starting to wonder if he is doing it on purpose, talking exactly the way the US government actually behaves instead of Uncle Tom Obamas sweet talking bullshit whilst he was doing exactly the same things, after Bush/Clinton/Bush did the same things, just getting worse all the time.
Typical SJW shite, which in reality in falsely claiming to be the left, a great big ole fat deep state lie, their only real function is not progressivism (just look a screeching women demanding equal high pay, but totally silent about men and women on the most unequal pay, the minimum wage, feminists don't wont to end that exploitation, they want to become the exploiters), the sole function of the SJWs is to deny workers a political party, that is why the screeching morons were created, to ensure no workers party in the USA, the majority denied a voice by the screechers of the SJW puppet community.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
... technological backwardness of government, not excellence of tools or technological awareness of "progressive" masses.
Russia and China have successfully censored their Internet portions. That's a fact. There is near-to-zero opposition in information sphere within Russia and all the activists I have been reading are confined to their Western audiences from their Western blogs.
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
the hell we make today is the filth our children will live in
when will people wake up
Goddam mods are up-voting a dig at Obama?
Take the fucking political bias (any at all) out or I'm going dark.
No wonder we have so many goddam AC.
Fuck off.
This site sucked Obama's dick for 8 damn years, and before that posting BOOOOSHITLER!!! was a great way to get a +5 mod.
And now it's all "RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA!". As one incompetent community organizer once said, "The 1980s called and want their foreign policy back."
Look, wake up to yourselves. Nobody buys the propaganda any more. What Trump says is exactly what the US has done for decades. Democracy and justice, nope, turning countries into shit holes that US corporations can ruthlessly exploit, stealing the resources and using slave labour to do it. A straight up continuation of imperialistic policies from the monarchists, unlike the Belgies cutting off hands the US fires missiles from drones into unsuspecting populations when their obedience quotient falls short.
Trump has been a breath of fresh air, or is that just the true miasma from the shadow government swamp, the truth about the reality US foreign policy for all to see. People are starting to wonder if he is doing it on purpose, talking exactly the way the US government actually behaves instead of Uncle Tom Obamas sweet talking bullshit whilst he was doing exactly the same things, after Bush/Clinton/Bush did the same things, just getting worse all the time.
Typical SJW shite, which in reality in falsely claiming to be the left, a great big ole fat deep state lie, their only real function is not progressivism (just look a screeching women demanding equal high pay, but totally silent about men and women on the most unequal pay, the minimum wage, feminists don't wont to end that exploitation, they want to become the exploiters), the sole function of the SJWs is to deny workers a political party, that is why the screeching morons were created, to ensure no workers party in the USA, the majority denied a voice by the screechers of the SJW puppet community.
I don't think you understand SJW mentality. It's based on wackademic theories such as Critical Race Theory.
"Critical" anything is just whingeing about how unfair things are so they have to be destroyed.
Remember all Obama's comments about "remaking the US economy"? That's a progtard dog whistle about how the US economy really has to be destroyed first, so it can be remade in order to hand out FWEEE STUFFZ!!!.
Look at the SJW takeover of comics - the SJWs don't CREATE their own new heroes. Oh no. They DESTROY other's heroes. Captain America as a Nazi? Nothing more destructive than that.
Critical-anything-theory is just a way to throw rocks at things you don't like, all wrapped up in big words.
It's crybully wackademics: "I can't have FWEEE STUFFZ, so I'm gonna shit all over yours and call you RAAACIST!!!"
You'd almost think it was created by anti-American Communists supported by the Soviet Union back in the 1920s or so, all to weaken Western culture, and that a bunch of useful idiots bought into it.
And idiots they are.
Thanks.
You and GP got down-modded.
I'm not asking for deletion of comments.
I'm just asking for filtering out shitholes like you and, sometimes, like me.
Sometimes I lash out in anger at that motherfucking pussy-grabbing orange-haired white nationalist sexual predator with an IQ slightly higher than asphalt and I respect the moderators who pound me into the dirt.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
You can type while vomiting.
We get it.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
You spelled.."The United States of America" wrong. I can understand, however, as the House of Saud is certainly a partner in crime in all of this. But..duh, obviously. Remember how happy we were when Iran had a terrorist attack last year? Kind of odd. What about ISIS, how they can form in a region we have under control, sort of like..heroin. Heroin comes from Afghanistan. Yeah...actually, you know what this is? THis is propaganda. Pretty cool. YOu can tell because there is a place in California that concentrates on Iran. If this isn't CIA, this wouldn't exist. Duh.