Iran Blocks Google, Moves Forward With Domestic Network Plans 134
hlovy writes "Iran moved forward with their previously discussed plans for a domestic version of the Internet over the weekend, as government officials announced that Google would be one of the first websites to be filtered through their state-controlled information network. According to Reuters, officials are claiming that the country's self-contained version of the World Wide Web, which was first announced last week, is part of an initiative to improve cyber security. However, it will reportedly also give the country the ability to better control the type of information that users can access online."
They going to introduce ISL-9 instead of IPv6 (Score:0, Funny)
They going to introduce ISL-9 (Islam) instead of IPv6, 3 extra bits for the 3rd dimension Ala
Just wait. (Score:2, Funny)
Ask Slashdot: Creating your own network.
Hi Slashdotters, I work for the Ayatollahs of Iran. As you may know, we have decided to create our own internet, without the dangers of a free society like porn (seeing any part of a woman besides her eyes), pictures of Muhammed (Allah Akbar!), and Jewish influence (banks). I bought a Linksys router and am reading the user manual, however I do not understand how this works. There is a thin cable with 2 large metal sticks on one side. I thought it would plug into my camel, but when I tried she just spit on me and kicked me in the face. Also, I only see 4 ports. How am I going to wire the internet for an entire country with only 4 connections? Does the rest of the free world have some sort of timeshare for the internet? Please help my government oppress free speech!
LOL (Score:5, Funny)
"self-contained version of the World Wide Web"
You're doing it wrong.
Back! Back to the middle ages. (Score:5, Funny)
Unfettered access to information? How unacceptable to my locked-in dogmas.
But nuclear power? That's a technology my stupid caveman government can support.
Re:LOL (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Novell, baby (Score:4, Funny)
IPX/SPX FTW!
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Half of me wants to punch you right now.
The other half want's to climb to the mountaintop and shout "APPLETALK!!!"
A very nice move from the Iranian Government (Score:1, Funny)
It's really a nice move from the Iranian Government and it shows us the way things should be handled. They don't like us, so far so good, they can block the :) :), they have goats isn't it ?
western websites but on our side we MUST block any http request from Iran, and especially for these kinds of websites:
* scientific : no scientific information must be given
* commercial : no need to show them what we can produce,sell, etc.
* news : they don't need to know what's going on
* culture : they are not entitled to have access to our culture
* sport : we don't have camel races
* entertainment : movies, music, etc are of no value to them
* porn : we shouldn't allow these people to see our nice girls
Obviously telephone lines should be be cut forever, in order to avoid use of dialup modems.
In addition we should extend these measures to all other Muslim countries and put an extremely strong embargo on:
* all books
* all electronic equipment and tools
* all medicine products
* etc
.
No contact of any kind !