Iran's Web censorship filters supreme leader's own statement

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Submission + - Iran's Web censorship filters supreme leader's own statement (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by halfEvilTech on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @02:30PM

halfEvilTech writes: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s own words have now become a victim of Iran’s massive online censorship infrastructure.

Khamenei, according to a translation by RFE, replied: "In general, the use of antifiltering software is subject to the laws and regulations of the Islamic republic, and it is not permissible to violate the law."

However, his own use of the word “antifiltering” apparently triggered Iran’s own filtering system, making Khamenei’s words inaccessible to most Iranians.

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