January 24, 2005
Lifting embargo on free speech
I really believe it's time to use the momentum that "freedom for repressed people" rhetoric of Bush has created and ask for some of the stupid parts of the US embargo on Iran that only harm the free speech of the Iranian people to be lifted.
We should bear in mind that two groups benefit most from a silence Iran in the international scene: Iranian militants and American neo-conservatives. Without an active and outspoken Iranian public, both these groups would easily manipulate the reality of Iran only to progress their radical agenda.
Best recent examples of such stupid measures by US companies as a result of the embargo policy are:
- Domain registrar GoDaddy's ban on clients from Iran, Iraq and a few other countries to register domain names
- Hosting company The Planet's termination of several accounts owned by Iranians.
I think the whole thing deserves more attention from the American liberal media and, honestly, it's a perfect topic for editorial writers of liberal newspapers, such as New York Times. Can anyone help?
Posted by hoder at January 24, 2005 3:54 PM
President Bush does not dictate the operational decisions of individual companies.
The Planet, at servermatrix.com, is based in Texas and is venture-capital funded. It seems well-managed, so there is some reason for their decision. Maybe they have evidence that some of their sites were advancing terrorism, and being a private company, they took private action. Why not storm their gates instead of blaming Bush...
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He will not , simply because he is out of Iran ,If he was inside Iran he will beg the satan himself to free him
Wake up
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We should not rest our hopes on the totally dysfunctional and manipulative American Liberal media. They have been in a state of "shock and awe" since the events of 9/11. Thankfully this phenomena is limited to the US, and despite of corporate takeovers in Canada and Western Europe, the voice of dissent hasn't been stifled.
As for Dubya and his rhetoric, he knows well what he's doing. There is a rather large and brainwashed constituency in US which, unfortunately has forgotten about the real "American Values" and thinks all this garbage about moral superiority is what America is all about. The neo-cons are very much similar to the mullahs in Iran. They are against any type of dissent, whether American, Iranian or Martian.
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Count me as one neoconservative who doesn't understand how my radical agenda will see progress by restricting access to the web for Iranian dissidents.
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Everytime I visit your blog I read about Bush Bush Bush Bush Bush Bush Bush. You seem to be an American and not an Iranian. When will you one day wake up and realize that the enemy is not George Bush but the horrible ruling mollahs who are choking Iran? Your blog will be much more informative if you concentrated on iran a little bit.
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Email Jeff Jarvis.
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