Oh my god! I *can not* believe how such stupid rumors get started and even published in the media!!! Yes the ICT ministry has asked ADSL internet service providers to stop giving high speed (higher than 128kbps) to their users. However, being the totalitarian regime that they are, this one had nothing to do with censorship! The ICT ministry announced that this is a *temporary* limitation which will be removed *within 4 months* and that it has to do with the gradual implementation of the new structure for ISP companies (which are going to be divided into several different categories based on their type of activity and the amount of bandwidth that they are allowed to provide).
And forget this post, didn't any of you think how stupid it sounds to *censor* the internet by just reducing the speed to 128kbps which is actually quite a fast connection for a home user in this part of the world (because of high price of internet bandwidth). It just doesn't make sense.
source:
http://www.iribnews.ir/MainContent.aspx?news_num=6 5777
If there's anything that this is proving, it's that the crazies are not in the minority here. 500,000 people chanting "death to america, death to israel?"
how can you say that this is proving that the crazies are not in minority??!!
1. the muslim population of the world is about 1.5 billion. tell me again, how many people in total, participated in violent demonstrations all over the muslim countries?
i know in Iran's capital city (Tehran) with a population of about 12 million, there were only 400 people who participated in the violent protests. well sure, it says in the news headlines that the danish embassy in tehran was set on fire, but does it emphasize that a group of 400 people in a 12 million population did that?
of course i know in some other countries the numbers where much higher, up to the tens of thousands, but still that's FAR FAR away from the majority of the muslim population.
2. last wednesday and thursday (8 and 9th Feb) some reports were putting the number of protestors in the hundreds of thousands in some countries. that has nothing to do with the cartoons. there is a two day annual religous event called Ashoora which takes place at this time of the year; and of course on the sidelines of that event, some groups where chanting slogans about the cartoons too.
i hope i've been able to convince some of you that it is not fair to conclude that the majority of muslims are violent people.
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Oh my god! I *can not* believe how such stupid rumors get started and even published in the media!!! Yes the ICT ministry has asked ADSL internet service providers to stop giving high speed (higher than 128kbps) to their users. However, being the totalitarian regime that they are, this one had nothing to do with censorship! The ICT ministry announced that this is a *temporary* limitation which will be removed *within 4 months* and that it has to do with the gradual implementation of the new structure for ISP companies (which are going to be divided into several different categories based on their type of activity and the amount of bandwidth that they are allowed to provide). And forget this post, didn't any of you think how stupid it sounds to *censor* the internet by just reducing the speed to 128kbps which is actually quite a fast connection for a home user in this part of the world (because of high price of internet bandwidth). It just doesn't make sense. source: http://www.iribnews.ir/MainContent.aspx?news_num=6 5777
maybe they said 2014 (2006+8) and some reporter got it wrong and wrote down 2040. any thoughts on that?
how can you say that this is proving that the crazies are not in minority??!!
1. the muslim population of the world is about 1.5 billion. tell me again, how many people in total, participated in violent demonstrations all over the muslim countries? i know in Iran's capital city (Tehran) with a population of about 12 million, there were only 400 people who participated in the violent protests. well sure, it says in the news headlines that the danish embassy in tehran was set on fire, but does it emphasize that a group of 400 people in a 12 million population did that?
of course i know in some other countries the numbers where much higher, up to the tens of thousands, but still that's FAR FAR away from the majority of the muslim population.
2. last wednesday and thursday (8 and 9th Feb) some reports were putting the number of protestors in the hundreds of thousands in some countries. that has nothing to do with the cartoons. there is a two day annual religous event called Ashoora which takes place at this time of the year; and of course on the sidelines of that event, some groups where chanting slogans about the cartoons too.
i hope i've been able to convince some of you that it is not fair to conclude that the majority of muslims are violent people.