TechNews_Bot
Wed 6 December 2006, 10:48 am GMT +0100
Iran yesterday blocked a number of top Web sites. Among them are YouTube, Web encyclopedia, Wikipedia and Amazon.com. Other sites that are being censored are the online movie database IMBD.com, news services like the New York Times and BBC Farsi.
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Nikolas
Wed 6 December 2006, 10:50 am GMT +0100
Looks like an opportunity for proxy site owners :)
olaf
Wed 6 December 2006, 11:05 am GMT +0100
thats bad for people from Iran...they loose the real internet now...
YMC
Wed 6 December 2006, 04:23 pm GMT +0100
I always find this type of censorship interesting. While their leader goes around saying how great and powerful they are, he prevents his people from having any outside information. Such a shame we still have countries that do this type of thing.
Nikolas
Wed 6 December 2006, 04:24 pm GMT +0100
I always find this type of censorship interesting. While their leader goes around saying how great and powerful they are, he prevents his people from having any outside information. Such a shame we still have countries that do this type of thing.
At least there are people who believe in freedom and create proxies :P
olaf
Wed 6 December 2006, 04:52 pm GMT +0100
At least there are people who believe in freedom and create proxies :P
thats why I calles my Proxy:
It's your freedom to surf the Internet!sorry Nick for spamming this thread :-[
YMC
Wed 6 December 2006, 05:26 pm GMT +0100
What's a little spam among friends? ;)
Nikolas
Wed 6 December 2006, 05:30 pm GMT +0100
BTW forgot to mention that this is something I really like about internet : none can rule it....
Isn't that great?
For example in the X country the government can bury the truth for some subject and the media wont mention it...
But if someone decide to post it on a forum or a blog none can really stop him/her
YMC
Wed 6 December 2006, 05:49 pm GMT +0100
Unfortunately, many who run forums and sites that talk about the truth live in fear for their life and are subject to almost daily attacks to bring down their sites.
Nikolas
Wed 6 December 2006, 06:02 pm GMT +0100
That is correct, but still none can hide the truth over internet.
For example I don't think someone would be able to close a blogger web site :)
YMC
Wed 6 December 2006, 06:30 pm GMT +0100
I have heard people complaining that their blogger site had disappeared and another appeared in it's place. Don't know how valid the complaints were, but I've seen several.
Nikolas
Wed 6 December 2006, 06:33 pm GMT +0100
Strange.
Google is well known for non-cooperating with governments.
For instance here in Greece, the police asked google for information regarding an email that a criminal sent using gmail, and they denied to give them any information! And I know that this also happened with CIA or FBI.
olaf
Wed 6 December 2006, 07:33 pm GMT +0100
BTW forgot to mention that this is something I really like about internet : none can rule it....
Isn't that great?
For example in the X country the government can bury the truth for some subject and the media wont mention it...
But if someone decide to post it on a forum or a blog none can really stop him/her
don't think so in China they have some strong controls and also Google is one of the censors