All the better to monitor its citizens against thoughtcrime: “the residents of Iran must give their name along with their father’s name, telephone number, address and national ID to log in to access internet.”
The “Government Knows Best” mentality meets “Allah knows best.” “Iran Begins Internet Crackdown, Preps Countrywide ‘Halal’ Intranet,” by Ravi Mandalia forITProPortal, January 7 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Just before the parliamentary elections, to be held in March, Iran has decided to strictly control web users in the country by bringing some draconian rules to be implemented in cybercafes besides preparing to introduce a national intranet. Residents of Iran are complaining that they are unable to connect to the Internet anonymously at Cyber Cafes in the country as government is creating a “censored” national intranet.
The government of Iran, on Wednesday, introduced a new rule under which the residents of Iran must give their name along with their father’s name, telephone number, address and national ID to log in to access internet,reported UPI.
Besides these rules, the government is also conducting various tests for a new countrywide network which is aimed at “substituting services” which operates through the internet. This move has lead to fears that the country is planning to withdraw itself from global internet.
Back when Iran’s Green Revolution was happening a whole bunch of Iranians were both blogging and Tweeting.
Iran’s mullahs hunted every single one of them down and either killed them, incarcerated them or forced them into re-education.
IF Iran’s hundreds of thousands of potential revolutionaries are to succeed in ending the mullahs reign of terror they will have to use pre-technological means of communicating such as runners and symbols like a ribbon around a tree in a park.
The ”easy” way will get them killed.
I think they all know this by now.