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Coinciding with the appropriation of a 5 billion Toman ($5,000,000) budget for a new ministry of ?communications project to filter websites and blogs, Tehran’s deputy public prosecutor, ?Mahmoud Salarkia announced, “A special court to examine electronic and computer-?related crimes will be established.”
Vahid Nikgou, the ?Persian cartoonist, writes that he has read that they are to employ figurines like the Microsoft Office Assistant for stopping the Iranian users from getting involved in “improper” activities. This is his depiction of how the “digital police figurine” will work,
