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Iran Shuts Down the Internet
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by Leonard Brody | December 16, 2007 at 10:34 pm
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Forget about their pathway to nukes....we should be way more worried about their joining China in the 'destroy web access' club. Bastards.
ranian police have closed down 24 Internet cafes and other coffee shops in as many hours, detaining 23 people, as part of a broad crackdown on immoral behavior in the Islamic state, official media said on Sunday.The action in Tehran province was the latest move in a campaign against fashion and other practices deemed incompatible with Islamic values, including women flouting strict dress codes and barber shops offering men Western hair styles.
"Using immoral computer games, storing obscene photos ... and the presence of women wearing improper hijab were among the reasons why they have been closed down," Colonel Nader Sarkari, a provincial police commander, said.
Since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the presidency in 2005, promising a return to the values of the 1979 Islamic revolution, hardliners have pressed for tighter controls on "immoral behaviour".
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at 22:59 on December 16th, 2007
Leonard Brody, good stuff.
How are they going to read the stories on NowPublic now?
at 23:22 on December 16th, 2007
So I guess it is ok to hang people for benig gay but not ok to use the computer because it is immoral??? I am confused.
Great find Mr. Brody
at 12:45 on December 17th, 2007
I love the phrase "campaign against fashion." Yes, fashion is the enemy, we must fight stylish hair.
at 14:15 on December 17th, 2007
Leonard Brody, good stuff.
So the internet brings awful things like fashion--and Western men's hairstyles? What the heck kind of haircut does MA himself have?
Absolute tyrants. This repression is very dangerous stuff. I bet though, that people inputting to jihadist and radical Islamist websites are allowed to use the internet.
at 16:21 on December 17th, 2007
There is absolutely no doubt that MA has western-style, 80s executive hair. He is such a hippocrate.
at 15:17 on December 17th, 2007
I think the Iranians need to post a channel on YouTube and make their nuclear program a reality show.
at 15:34 on December 17th, 2007
How is Ahmadinejad going to write his blog posts?!? Oy.
at 16:08 on December 17th, 2007
Quite a misleading headline - closing down a few internet cafe's is hardly shutting down the internet...
And read why....
practices deemed incompatible with Islamic values, including women
flouting strict dress codes and barber shops offering men Western hair
styles.
"Using immoral computer games, storing obscene photos ... and the
presence of women wearing improper hijab were among the reasons why
they have been closed down,
Now I suppose if you found your kids playing a computer game you thought inappropriate you'd ignore it? Obscene photos - hey most countries send people to jail for that and improper wearing of the hijab...
WHY do western nations what to always inflict THEIR moral judgements on other countries. Look at the typical Western response to Muslims in a western country ...Hmmm arrest him, he looks suspicious in those Muslim clothes (not complying to western fashion) and could be a terrorist because he has men coming to his house all the time (yeah to pray if you must know) ....
Two side to every coin people.....and open your eyes and leave predujice at the door (along with your shoes please ;) )
at 12:21 on December 19th, 2007
Leonard Brody, you've convinced me you've done the work - it's authentic. I also think that you've been fair and thorough. I didn't get the sense that you were hiding your biases, or passing off other's work as your own. Or worse -- getting paid by those you cover -- so it's transparent and independent. I also think you deserve praise for being an eyewitness, and for your investigative efforts. Good stuff.
I like your candour and honesty, Leonard, that's a Number 10 on the Candidus Maximus scale.:)
at 04:01 on April 2nd, 2008
I agree Matt. There is too much pornography on the internet. In America they go on a witch hunt and spend millions of peoples tax dollars on Impeachment of President Clinton and do nothing about the 30 billion dollar Pornography business on the internet. What a fraud, what a scam. In my book Republicans owe millions of dollars in tax dollars back to the people, and then to shut down the pornography business on the net. They hang gays in Iran, and they don't execute innocent people in the USA? They orchestrated 911 and killed thousands of Americans that day in order to stage a false War in Iraq and Afghanistan and all of a sudden Iran is the bad guy? I have a real hard time understanding that? It's OK for the USA to have nukes, but not defenseless nations in the world who have all the natual oil resources right? America has no large Oil reserves, all it has is a huge military to continue its bullying in the world and making up lies to invade other countries. Somehow it seems to me Iran has more of a legitimate reason to need nukes than the US claim to have them. Truth is America is more repressive to its people, and American's don't even know it. The richest country in the world has to bail out its own banking institutions, has more forclosure's than any other country in the world, and the most homeless, and they call that freedom? I bet there are more homeless Americans, than homeless in Afghanistan.