High speed internet connectivity is illegal in Iran

Well, as a non-Muslim it certainly would suck for me.

 

I'm an Iranian (living in U.S) and I can tell you for sure that story is not true...

I used high speed internet when I was in Iran myself (higher than 128kb/s)

The only problem with it is that it is very expensive at this point (just like other third world countries)... Therefore only some government institutes and companies use it...

Cheers,
Nima

 

I was born in iran, its nice there no one needs the internet there always together talking playing, its fun.

 

Tapion,

Where you from?

 

I am from Tehran, I live in Canada.

 

I lived there for 18 years..

 

I imagine thats a good point, TV and internet do tend to cut into your social life.
I dont do TV but even the Interent takes a fair bit of my time.

 

Fun!

http://www.apostatesofislam.com/media/stoning.htm

 

The situation with Internet is no better at all in Turkmenistan. Its President who had ruled the country for the last 21 years, died just a week ago.

The guy restricted the general use of Internet to crush opposition and I guess free speech in general.

Iran and Turkmenistan have got a common order so they must be learning from each other .

 

Havnt you heard, freedom of speach is a threat to national security.
Im sure the Mullahs use the same argument as Homeland Security.
Freedom of speach should remain absolute, non of this well except when its a matter of national security, or patriotism or any of that other bull.

 

I agree that freedom of speech, as protected in the constitution, should remain absolute.

However, I also believe that non-disclosure agreements do not breach this. If you sign a contract stating that you will receive money from the government in exchange for your doing work for them, and that you will not disclose certain classes of information disclosed to you so that you can do this work effectively, that you have voluntarily agreed not to speak about something, and to do so is a violation of the terms of your contract.

If I, as a private citizen, however, witnessed an event relating to a government operation, but had no such contract in force upon me (I was just in the right place at the right time), I would be under no legal obligation to keep this information secret.

However, if my disclosure of this information would lead to the loss of life, and compromise the defense of the nation, it is within the prerogative of the executive branch to prevent me from spreading this information until such a time as it no longer threatens the safety of the nation.

The executive branch of the federal government has been given broad powers to do what is necessary in defense of the nation, and was given those powers by the constitution. That is why it was able to order rail workers who were on strike to go back to work during previous wars, and state that anyone who quit or continued to strike would be treated the same as a deserter from the military. At the same time they temporarily took over management of the nation's railroads in order to ensure fair working conditions and payment for the rail workers.

 

It seems like being a retard or the leader of the country is about the only thing that IS legal over there... Sad

 

Pot calling kettle?

 

Damn, they can't watch porn with proxy websites anymore!

 

porn is for lonely people...mostly everyone there is married...and probably the government banned porn sites before this law