Iran to attempt cutoff from worldwide web

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Iran to attempt cutoff from worldwide web

Cost savings and morals cited as reason

weeks

2:44 pm on May 30, 2011 (gmt 0)

The Wall Street Journal and others are reporting that...

Iran is taking steps toward an aggressive new form of censorship: a so-called national Internet that could, in effect, disconnect Iranian cyberspace from the rest of the world.
The leadership in Iran sees the project as a way to end the fight for control of the Internet, according to observers of Iranian policy inside and outside the country. Iran, already among the most sophisticated nations in online censoring, also promotes its national Internet as a cost-saving measure for consumers and as a way to uphold Islamic moral codes.
Read more: [online.wsj.com...]

Ah..., good luck with that. Other than been economically, socially, politically, and technically stupid and unethical, I don't see any problems.

johnmoose

3:24 pm on May 30, 2011 (gmt 0)

Back to the stone age for the Iranians...

g1smd

5:03 pm on May 30, 2011 (gmt 0)

back?

rocknbil

7:02 pm on May 30, 2011 (gmt 0)

Oh, snap, that's right, Adam and Eve aren't in their teachings, they don't know the lesson of "if you want to motivate someone to do something, tell them they can't."

lucy24

8:28 pm on May 30, 2011 (gmt 0)

Adam and Eve aren't in their teachings

Um, yes they are. But in the Islamic version, they were subsequently forgiven.

I don't think I've ever had a visitor from Iran. What do you mean, Iranians aren't interested in UCAS font-display problems? :) (I have had people whose searches were in non-Roman scripts, so you can't blame it on that.)

Locking out the entire universe will definitely be easier than the site-by-site method currently used in Saudi Arabia.

Scribersoft

5:01 pm on Jun 3, 2011 (gmt 0)

Does it matter whether a country is or not part of WWW.

HuskyPup

8:07 pm on Jun 7, 2011 (gmt 0)

I don't think I've ever had a visitor from Iran.

I know of at least one regular WebmasterWorld member from Iran:-)

Plus I get regular visitors from there since Iran is a major supplier to my widget industry.

caran1

1:31 am on Jun 8, 2011 (gmt 0)

The internet is used fairly extensively in Iran for B2B trade.

HRoth

9:09 pm on Jun 8, 2011 (gmt 0)

I've had visitors from Iran. I wonder if rather than wanting to cut off their citizens from the net, they want to cut off the net from their sensitive networks, seeing as allegedly they have been hacked and infected repeatedly.

wpride

10:24 pm on Jun 13, 2011 (gmt 0)

That's strange.

dpd1

9:46 pm on Jun 15, 2011 (gmt 0)

The more you take stuff from people, the more they'll want it. It's just going to make their people dislike them that much more. They're probably watching all the unrest in all these other countries and sweating bullets.