Talk:Internet censorship in Iran

youtube and wikipedia etc. are not blocked here. Stop lying you Jews.--85.185.144.251 10:32, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

I am not of any particuar ethnic group, but as of today, I observed those sites to be indeed heavily filtered. Also lots of references on google, e.g., CNet Report on censoring and proxies in Iran PotatoEater (Does this resolve the multiple issues on the article?) (talk) 11:32, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Haystack Network

The Haystack Network is a project headed by Austin Heap to make a program capable of getting around the blocks. http://www.haystacknetwork.com/ Kevin chen2003 (talk) 22:36, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Almost a year after the above msg, this project seems still vaporware. No download buttons on that site.

Another tool, one that I have seen using in an internet cafe, is Ultrasurf, but google shows many sources indicating that it is a trojan. As an aside, the search term Ultrasurf is blocked in Iran for google, wikipedia, etc. PotatoEater (talk) 12:11, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

dont recall where i read this but they claimed they werre distributing it by usb stiicks to avoid reverse engineering th tables

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Iranian Blacklist

Is there anyway to obtain the list of sites that Iran is blacklisting? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Scirocco6 (talk • contribs) 17:35, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

I have seen the filter change several times over a three-week period. At one point, en.wikipedia.org was added to the filter. Later, en.wikipedia.org was accessible again, but specific keywords where filtered, such as Ultrasurf. Also, such keywords are now filtered on all search machines. There is no such thing as a defined list of blacklisted sites. PotatoEater (talk) 12:18, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Two-way censorship

While the iranian government filters the incoming internet (censorship), America (Europe?) applies Export Restrictions towards e.g., Iran. Sourceforge refuses to download to Iranians, see their apology.

As a foreign traveller, I was not able to obtain updates for McAfee while in Iran. As a registered user from outside Iran, an update would not even constitute an export to Iran.

This seems in violation to the free character of Open Source. They seem to bow very very fast to the demands of the US government, while the NY Times recently reported that 74 major companies blatantly ignore that same law, and that in 30 years no single company was ever penalized for it.

On the other hand, in Iran you can buy in every shop and restaurant Coca Cola, Fanta etc, bottled in Teheran with a license of the Coca Cola company. Just an example of the many US products normally available in Iran.

I really think all this boycott stuff is junk. US/Europe wants Free Trade, then a boycott is not logical. Also, the intent of the boycotts are to influence the Iranian government to change policies towards the demands of the US, but which sane mind can imagine a government to say 'ouf, our internet users cannot download from Sourceforge (or buy a spare part for our 30-year old boeing plane) , now we really have to change our policies on (atomic bomb / head scarfs / whatever).' In fact, the only real reason I can think of for the boycott is to actually keep the regime more firm in place so that the US military industry will not lose business. PotatoEater (talk) 12:45, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Internet censorship in Iran

The second para of the introduction states "In November 2006, Iran was one of thirteen countries labeled 'enemies of the internet' by activist group Reporters Without Borders.[1] In March 2010, it was one of three regimes so labeled.[7]". The second link, pointing to an article dated 11 March 2010, no longer works. A Reporters Without Borders article of 18 March 2010 states, "The 'Enemies of the Internet' list drawn up again this year by Reporters Without Borders presents the worst violators of freedom of expression on the Net: Saudi Arabia, Burma, China, North Korea, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Uzbekistan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, and Vietnam.". I've corrected the number of 'enemies of the internet' from three to twelve, and replaced the old (broken) link. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oniscoid (talk)

proxy servers

serversi think it is silly to assign all outbound proxy servers on earth to the US