January 20, 2006
BBC Persian filtered
BBC Persian's website, which is the most popular among the BBC World Service's websites has been filtered by the Iranian government for the first time.
Entekhab, a conservative news website close to Ali Larijani, is also filtered.
Ahmadinejad and allies have started expanding their power in the system and these two are small but significant signs of such changes.
UPDATE:
- Comments on Sobhaneh, the collaborative news blog I run, confirm that now it's even filtered by the big ISPs in Tehran, such as Pars Online, Datak, etc. So it's now certain that it's a new government policy.
Comments
A sideways view on the whole filtering topic, from someone inside the BBC? I think he would like us to use RSS only to read BBCPersian.com from now on.
- By: anonymous reader on January 24, 2006
- By: anonymous reader on January 24, 2006
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Oh, now I see. Originally I thought you were saying BBC was doing the censoring. It was hard to believe that the Iranian government could have that much influence. Now I see that you meant Iran is censoring BBC. I agree with JPB, no big surprise there.
- By: Naveed on January 23, 2006
- By: Naveed on January 23, 2006
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How do you know BBC Persian has been filtered? It would have been nice if you included a link to the source of your information.
- By: Naveed on January 21, 2006
- By: Naveed on January 21, 2006
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And this is a surprise?
Despots must always censor... otherwise, they couldn't maintain their power.
Of course, nutty islamists would censor a site advocating freedom, sex, or multi-culturalism. It would be foolish to expect any other response!
J P B,
Grrr SC or Greer, SC
- By: J P B on January 21, 2006
- By: J P B on January 21, 2006
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