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The media that desires to report truths is under attack. Again.Yesterday’s opposition demonstrations, which were dispersed with violence and loss of life, were followed today by raids by the intelligence ministry and Revolutionary Guards on opposition figures and news media and a new wave of hacker attacks on websites. Several journalists,.... have been arrested.
That is sad news. Journalists getting pressured to be silent on ideas of opposition b/c they feel that things could be better for the country. But the country's leader and his henchmen obviously like things the way they are.“The authorities want to silence the witnesses of the crackdown in order to continue committing atrocities with complete impunity,”......
Who knows what's happening with him there.,.... the editor of Kaleme.org (opposition leader Mirhossein Moussavi’s official website), was also arrested at his Tehran home today and taken to an unknown place of detention.
Torture??
It is not uncommon for journalists to face torture of either themselves or have their families threatened in regions where there is more autonomy rather than democracy.
We, living in the western hemisphere are fortunate to at least have some semblance of democracy. Even though democratic functions of various democratic states are being eroded.
Nevertheless....
censorship and eventual control of information. That's what that act was leading to.At the same time, plain-clothes men... raided the headquarters of the weekly Irandokhte ( a newspaper, I imagine) , confiscating all of its computers....
again...censorship and the denial of information available to those people who would have wanted to know what's going on.Several Internet Service Providers have meanwhile been cutting connections. The level of disruption yesterday was unprecedented: most independent or opposition websites were rendered inaccessible within Iran as a result of systematic attacks coming from “unidentified servers.”
There.Several Tehran sources told Reporters Without Borders it was possible to demonstrate that these hacker attacks were being organised by the Iranian authorities and from Revolutionary Guard servers. The country’s main ISPs depend on the Telecommunication Company of Iran (TCI), a company that was bought by the Revolutionary Guards in September
Now we have an idea of who those 'unidentified servers' were as mentioned.
enjoy the short and fairly interesting read on censorship and control of the media.
IT's not just in Europe, North America, Asia, and South America.
Censorship is everywhere.
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