As Iran tries to stay ahead of the Internet Roderic they have begun to consider the death penalty for some of them.
Seeing Iran has such a dense group people blogging they will need new technology to police the web. Who will provide this technology is the question now. And who has provided it in the past?
The companies selling technology to a repressive government like Iran need to rethink what they are doing. They are contributing to the death and torture of human beings. Sham on them!
Iran Considers Death Penalty For Bloggers And Webmasters
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Shayne @ 10:34 am
Um. This is really bad. Can we get a list of Companies that sell to Iran. Is Cisco selling firewalls to them?
博客入狱人数上升，伊朗考虑处博客博主死刑 @ 廊坊志 @ 5:45 am
[...] 保护记者委员会的2009年年度报告称，截至12月1日，全世界有136位记者入狱，其中至少68名是博客、通过互联网报道的记者、和在线编辑，占总入狱人数的半数。另外51人是纸媒记者、编辑和摄影师。剩余的人则是电视和电台记者，以及纪录片制作人。报告称其中有20人关押在秘密地点。其中最为可怕的是伊朗，在学生举行抗议示威之后，政府考虑判处惹恼它的博客和网站管理者死刑。 [...]
Translation: Committee to Protect Journalists said the 2009 annual report, as of December 1, 136 journalists around the world prison, of which at least 68 are blog, news reports through the Internet, and online editing, accounting for half of the total number of inmates. Another 51 people are paper media reporters, editors and photographers. The remaining people are on television and radio journalists, and documentary producer. One report said 20 people were detained in an undisclosed location. One of the most horrible thing is that Iran, the students held a protest demonstration, the Government should consider sentenced to annoy its blog and Web site administrators to death