Blog Registration Mandated in Iran
Posted by KamangirDec 30
Secretary of journalism and information in the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance announced today,
According to the information sources’ management article authorized by the cabinet at the end of November 2006 (see), all owners of information sources, websites, and weblogs, should register in www.samandehi.ir and www.Samandehi.com starting at January 1st, 2007″.
Archer
You said registration is mandatory, does it mean that people who will not register their blogs or websites will be punished? How do you think will it reflect on iranian blogosphere? What do you think iranian bloggers will do?
If the rule would be applied, I think, it will be an awful news for iranian blogosphere.
Ella,
I think the only people who may register their blogs are teenagers who post romantic “safe” poems. For any person who is talking about politics/religion/culture/anything worthwhile, registration will mean exposing their identities and putting themselves in trouble.
For your information, the Iranians are used to these types of rules who will not be carried out at all. I just remind you that most Iranian taxi drivers are non-registered and yet they make a living out of it.
If you ask me, this rule is authorized to decrease unemployment rate. Who do you think is going to read hundreds of thousands of blog in a daily basis?
Archer
If you ask me, this rule is authorized to decrease unemployment rate.
:-) :-) ;-)
BTW your answer reminded me of a theory one guy have regarding “Why islamic fundamentalists got booted out of Somalia” He reasoned that although fundamentalists did introduce all different rules of behaviour many somalians where not exactly against some of these rules. However when they actually started to enforce all these rules (atop all of them, the prohibition to chew khat, a very mild narcotic substance similar to coffee), that was too much for somalians.
ups,a mistake. Pls read many somalians were i/o where
Ella,
And the conclusion? Deny my freedom, but give me my khat? ;)
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