wikilieaks: Iran blocks WikiLeaks

[SealLion]

Check it out.

Big Brother is still with us.

He just won't go away.

Iran has blocked the main addresses of the whistleblower site WikiLeaks. In doing so, it has crossed an important human rights line


A middle-sized developing country, such as Iran, which is faced with wealthy adversaries, may argue that it needs to censor "enemy media" in order to maintain itself as an independent nation. ....................But Iran has not blocked WikiLeaks to stop foreign influence pouring into the country. It has blocked WikiLeaks to try and prevent Iranian whistleblowers getting the truth out.

In censorship terms, the blocking of WikiLeaks is Iran's Berlin wall moment; it is not an attempt to keep enemies out, rather, it is an attempt to lock Iranians in, and as such must be condemned

I guess BigBrother just knows what's best for us...er...the Iranians in this particular case.


Here's teh link. It's a short read, too. So it won't take up too much of your time.

Iran blocks WikiLeaks - Wikileaks

Hey.
This isn't the first time that Wikileaks has been blocked.
Nor will it be the last time.


but that's what happens when truth and the divulging of information to the public is blocked by government and organizations.

[anon]

It's not the first site Iran blocks, either. Freegate boomed in popularity there before it was made shareware for users outside of China.

[SealLion]

I didn't know what Freegate was before reading your post. I read that it basically is a program that basically lets a user view a website that's been blocked by thier gov't. I read also that it's financed by some propaganda organization.

That's quite interesting.

Though maybe it is a good thing for it to be financed by a propaganda organization b/c it at least let's other's not so fortunate to experience an open internet, to actually experience it then.

[anon]

I didn't know what Freegate was before reading your post. I read that it basically is a program that basically lets a user view a website that's been blocked by thier gov't. I read also that it's financed by some propaganda organization.

Yes, by someone from the Falun Gong cult. It's a small proxy app that tunnels your traffic through Dynaweb's servers, this way your ISP can't see what pages you're browsing, and therefore can't block them.

It also worked to tunnel tracker announces until it became shareware for non-chinese users. (I really need to update my tut, JAP for the win )

Ultrasurf is another one, and there are of course hundreds of SSL Web proxies that can do the same.