id be very happy to see ben edelman as involved as possible in this iran situation. in the meantime, there is now an entry at saoirse na hoige about iran and circumventor. anyone who doesnt know about circumventor yet should read it and follow the instuctions to set up your own. make sure to let the rest of us know what the url for your proxy is once it is set up, so it can spread and we can begin to test just what the response will be. circumventor entry can be found here: http://saoirse.oige.net/archives/000201.html
- By: Balagan on July 23, 2003

Hey Hossein, I asked a friend of mine, who happens to be an admin on one of __big__ ISP networks in Tehran. What 'Mokhaberat' does in this case is basically they drop the packets with certain ip numbers as their destination; This is why after blocking a bad(!) site, all other ones with are 'virtual host'ed there are also blocked. resolution? install, find and expand open proxies all over the net.
- By: mas on July 22, 2003

Balagan: I posted on Greplaw about this prior to July 9. So they are all caught up with the news about Iran until that date. But that's when the story started to get complicated. I'm not sure exactly what they're doing or how they're doing it. So I was not sure if I should ask Jason Shellen to change the Blogspot IP number the way he did with China because these mullahs seem more fanatical than the Chicoms. (They might just block the next number used.) Edelman has the background experience that would enable him to better analyze what is going on here and suggest appropriate strategies to deal with it effectively.
- By: button on July 22, 2003

ben edelman is a good idea. ive already contacted bennett haselton about this. hopefully we will see some technical options to route around these problems soon.
- By: Balagan on July 22, 2003

Sorry about the double post, but I am getting a strange error messagae when I try to post something. Don't understand that. --button
- By: button on July 21, 2003

With regard to the filtering and blockage problem, suggest you contact Ben Edelman: REMOVEedelmanATlaw.harvard.edu Hope this helps. --button
- By: Nancy Drew on July 21, 2003

i have access to your english blog but not to the persian one!
- By: nojavan on July 21, 2003

With regard to the filtering and blockage problem, you should contact Ben Edelman at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center. He specializes in this problem. REMOVEedelmanATlaw.harvard.edu Hope this helps.
- By: button on July 21, 2003

What about create a petition? It seems a good idea. Oh u don't like it? Why? There is not your name in the top of that page? Oww! It's realy unbearable! Who can believe it? there is not any name of The Great Hoder in that page? Oh my god! Fuck'em all Great Hoder! Related links: - I'm always here, no matter what happens. Those who are dependent on power and money of other people or organizations should be worried about themselves. - Free our weblogs
- By: cheeky on July 19, 2003

Hossein, if there's a way, maybe we can set up auxilliary blogs. By this I mean, if we can receive posts by email we can continue putting up information for anyone who's blocked on unblocked sites while we campaign against the censorship. This is just a thought of course, if there's any other plan of action, I'd like to be of help.
- By: Nema Milaninia on July 19, 2003

Dear Hosein, as you said for thousand times I want to create an English blog, but so much problems with Blogger in publishing and even viewing the blod itself. could you help me soon what to do? thanks in advance and all the best
- By: Maryam on July 19, 2003