Nik sends us the news that Iran has warned it’s citizens that has shut down Google and they’re preparing to completely shut down access to the worldwide web.
On Sunday, the Iranian state television network announced that Google and Gmail would be blocked “within a few hours.” The ban will remain in effect until further notice.
Meanwhile, a government deputy minister announced they were going to put all their citizens in a “domestic internet network.” While Iran has blocked sites that go against the government’s views in the past, this will cut citizens off the internet completely.
This time they are planning to take everyone off the grid and into their own government-controlled corral. People are not longer going to be able to use virtual private networks to bypass governmental censorship and access information freely.
This is probably in reaction to the Arab Autumn although the government is saying it’s to prevent infiltration by the Zionists. This while Ahmadinejad is in New York at the UN calling everyone names and saying that Israel will be “eliminated”. Apparently the Israel delegation walked out of the General Assembly, while Susan Rice and her gang sat their happy asses through the entire tirade.
I’m really interested in seeing how they’re going to accomplish this. Are they literally going around and cutting hardlines? Marching in the Geek Squad along with a squad of gunmen and taking over ISPs? Or, instead, are they going to just command things be blocked and redirected? The latter is pretty easily bypassed in comparison.
Maybe this is a good thing. In fact, maybe we should be doing it TO them.
Parents do this to their children who aren’t responsible and adult enough to handle things. They limit their access. Maybe we should cut the internet off to places like Libya and Egypt until they’re able to maturely handle opposing points of view.
The mullahs at the top seem to forget that their boy Khomeini was put into power thanks to cassette tapes. Lack of Internet won’t stop the people from overthrowing their government. Hopefully it means someone rational takes over.
My Iranian cousins seem pretty optimistic that that will happen. Iranians are good people, Iranian government is a travesty.
Susan Rice was quoted as saying that she felt Ahmanujob was just acting out in response to the anti Islam film, and she fully intended to personally apologise. Unfortunately her Burqa had not shown up in time, and she also remembered that as a woman her words mean squat to the Ayatollahs. A call has been put out to Jimmy Carter to give the apology
There goes at least half of my hits for ilovemygoat.com. Damn!
@ 4 NICE!
“This time they are planning to take everyone off the grid and into their own government-controlled corral.”
Am I the only one wondering what kind of shit-net they’re going to impose on their citizens?
Iran is what it is. Who the hell are we to expect anything better for them.
Wait a minute. Motorola sells a huge number of smartphones in Iran, because Apple is not allowed to do so. Since the smartphones have wireless internet access, how does Ohmydinnerjacket expect to keep ‘his’ people from reaching the real world? (as opposed to the ‘world of his imagination’)
The whole thing runs on a htzcycle band, right?
Oh, what the heck. What do I know about computers, anyway?
Thanks Master Chief 🙂
@3, why settle for Jimmah, I’m positive that Baracka will render a full apology with requisite bows included.
Didn’t they try to do pretty much the same thing during the protests in Iran a while back and it failed?
Explains why insipid hasn’t been on for a few days…….