Political Humor | Iranian Internet Censorship

Iran Tightens Net Control, Researchers Say - Forbes.com: “Iran Tightens Net Control, Researchers Say
06.22.2005, 07:07 PM

The Iranian government has tightened its control over the Internet, increasingly blocking content in its national language of Farsi and restricting what citizens can publish through Web journals, Western researchers say.

Iran shows a sophistication in filtering seen only in China and a few other countries, adapting its techniques as use of the Internet evolves, said John Palfrey, a Harvard University researcher who studied censorship in Iran for the OpenNet Initiative. ”
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Iran’s crackdown on internet: “Iran’s crackdown on internet
22/06/2005 09:09 - (SA)
Washington - Iran has among the strictest internet censorship in the world, blocking access to sexual content, political websites and information on women’s rights and ‘blogs,’ are routinely blocked, a study by internet researchers showed on Tuesday.”
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Iran News - “Iran’s web censorship among world’s strictest”: “‘Iran’s web censorship among world’s strictest’

Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - ��2005 IranMania.com
LONDON, June 22 (IranMania) - Iran has among the strictest Internet censorship in the world, blocking access to sexual content, political websites, information on women’s rights and ‘blogs,’ a study by Internet researchers showed , according to AFP.

‘Along with China, Iran has committed to adapting its filtering practices with changes in Internet technology, which suggests that the cat and mouse game between those who would speak freely and those who would stop them is bound to continue. Bloggers who write in Farsi in Iran have a much harder job today in trying to reach their audience than bloggers in most other parts of the world.’”
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U.S. Newswire : Releases : “Iran’s Internet Censorship Among Strictest in the…”: “‘Our report on Iranian filtering of the Internet shows that not only are freedom of speech and access to information under threat, but that there is a growing commercial market for the technologies that diminish them. By providing filtering systems to non-democratic regimes, the U.S. company, Secure Computing, is complicit in Iranian breaches of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. This thriving Internet censorship market — spread like a virus from China to Iran to an increasing number of countries worldwide — calls into question not only the trumpeted slogans of high-tech firms that the Internet represents ‘freedom’ and ‘connectivity,’ but simplistic divisions between ‘us’ and ‘them’ as well.’ — Ronald Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab, University of Toronto.”
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