Iran Cracks Down on Bloggers 261
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."
Democracy and fascism. (Score:2, Interesting)
He's a Hitler, lets go! (Score:1, Interesting)
The cynic says... (Score:3, Interesting)
Nice one. (Score:5, Interesting)
Boing Boing guide to evading censorware. (Score:5, Interesting)
Should be useful to Iranians, as the US firm Secure Computing [securecomputing.com] is the company censoring Iran.
Message to the Struggling Iranians (Score:3, Interesting)
Good luck. If you succeed, the French will finish up that nuclear power plant. Count on it.
Re:Sad but true (Score:1, Interesting)
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Iran and stalinism (Score:5, Interesting)
While the Shah and the US had some agreement (such as the idea that keeping left-wing fascism (i.e. socialism) and Islamic fascism out of Iran was a good idea), he wasn't the US's puppet. He tended to jerk the US around more than the US jerked his strings. Regardless, a very large and growing number of Iranians remember his rule as being very enlightened compared to the Islamic fascism which eventually took over.
Iran is a theocracy (Score:5, Interesting)
Iran calls itself a democracy but its obviously not. Yes the people get to vote on leaders but who can run isn't exactly open to public choice. Where is the democracy when the people you can choose to vote for are no one you would choose? Iran, as many countries of this type (dictatorships, theorcracies, etc) love to represent themselves to the world in terms that boast about freedom while at the same time providing none of it to their citizens.
Look at it this way, if you have to put the label in your name your probably not adhereing to that label's intent. A long time ago those lables meant something but today they are just words on paper (example : Islamic Republic of Iran )
What do you expect of a place that ... (Score:5, Interesting)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all& q=iran+hang+girl&btnG=Search [google.com]
Does anyone expect they are concerned about any other human rights?
Sheesh people, wake up and smell the Sharia.
Re:how timely.... (Score:2, Interesting)