Iran Cracks Down on Bloggers

Wired News is reporting that dozens of Iranian Bloggers have been met with harassment by the government and some have even been arrested for voicing dissenting views in recent history. The article takes a look at some of the bloggers who are fighting for their rights and how. From the article: "The Iranian blogging community, known as Weblogistan, is relatively new. It sprang to life in 2001 after hard-liners -- fighting back against a reformist president -- shut down more than 100 newspapers and magazines, and detained writers. At the time, Derakhshan posted instructions on the internet in Farsi on how to set up a weblog."

Re:Nigger, nigger, nigger

[liliafan]

Nigger

I for one would like to welcome our 2 year old audience, it is nice that children are taking an interesting in day to day events, even if they do have potty mouth!

Neoblogism?

[sammeal]

"Seriously, is there some sort of competition between bloggers to see who can come up with the latest "5 seconds of fame" painful, buzzwordy neologism?"

Are you referring to neoblogisms?

Re:That's NOTHING compared to Norway

[Valdrax]

I got my mail stolen, I am attacked using microwave weapons, psycotronic weapons and other advanced weapons and after 3 months of "Secret" police torture the army joined in and I am now also attacked regularly by directed energy weapons on aircraft.

So, what are the other effects of these energy and "psycotronic" weapons other than hallucinations and paranoia?

I hear that the private sector sells medicines that can render the body immune to such weaponry. You should look up SSRIs sometime.

Re:The cynic says...

[halivar]

The cynic in me says that this story is a careful plant by the Bush Administration

Yes, because Slashdot is a proven shill for the administration. CmdrTaco is Bush Minister of Propoganda. I swear, sometimes I wonder how you people find your pants in the morning without help. Take off the tinfoil hat, it's out of season.

Re:Relativism

[LukeWink]

Hey, muslims may be seen as intollerant, but at least they don't go around killing people who convert from Islam to another religion. Now that would be intollerant!

Weblogistan?

[autopr0n]

Who wrote this crap, Jon Katz?