Iran blocks access to over five million websites: report
AFP
21-Nov-2008 (3 comments)

TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran has blocked access to more than five million Internet sites, whose content is mostly perceived as immoral and anti-social, a judiciary official was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

"The enemies seek to assault our religious identity by exploiting the Internet," Abdolsamad Khoram Abadi, an advisor to Iran's prosecutor general, was quoted by Kargozaran newspaper as saying.

The Internet "inflicts social, political, economic and moral damage, which is worrying," he said, adding that "social vice caused by the Internet is more than that by the satellite network," Mehr news agency reported.

With about 21 million users, the Internet is widely popular in Iran, which information ministry officials say ranks among the top 20 user countries.

In recent years, Internet service providers have been told to block access to political, human rights and women's sites and weblogs expressing dissent or deemed to be pornographic and anti-Islamic.

The ban has also targeted such popular social networking sites as Facebook and YouTube, as well as news sites.

Iran's reformist press was hit by a massive crackdown in 2000, and many journalists turned to blogging after their publications were shut down.

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Sickofit, So I guess you

by Khosrow (not verified) on Mon Nov 24, 2008 03:56 PM PST

Sickofit,

So I guess you wanna stick your head in the sand and pretend Iran is in good shape so our country goes even more and more deeper down the tiolette?


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Good Job

by XerXes (not verified) on Sun Nov 23, 2008 08:19 AM PST

It's a good thing to stop none sense propaganda. Most of those are porn sites anyways and people do have filter shekan (I said it in Persian so F Kashani won't know what I am saying. lol)


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When I read news like this,

by Sickofit (not verified) on Sat Nov 22, 2008 04:33 PM PST

When I read news like this, I get upset and curse mollahs for doing stupid things such as this. But what irritates me even more is when someone else (especially, a Zionist sympathizer) tries to feed me with every single petty bad news coming out of Iran usually with an exaggerated, cheesy title.


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