Iran Vows To Unplug The Internet

Wall Street Journal:

Iran is taking steps toward an aggressive new form of censorship: a so-called national Internet that could, in effect, disconnect Iranian cyberspace from the rest of the world.

Read the whole story: Wall Street Journal

Comments

[Ralph Boyd]

11:28 AM on 05/31/2011

The only problem with that?
Everything if you want to be a technologically progressive nation.

That's the weird thing about Iran, they want to be a technologically sophisticated country without the free thought and freedom of inquiry necessary to develop advanced technology. They buy or copy bits and pieces of Western technology and they can and they barely have the people to manage that.

Sooner or later Iran will have to make the choice of either a modern state or a feudal theocratic serfdom. The later they'll just destroy themselves with what they don't really understand.

[Eileenla]

04:39 AM on 05/31/2011

It will be interesting to observe how the Iranian people respond to the move to isolate them from the rest of the world. They are more highly educated and generally younger than North Koreans, so I suspect they won't appreciate the national censorship.

[KMBerger]

01:59 PM on 05/30/2011

The signs of an increasingly desperate regime. Once the plug is detached it is very likely protests will break out. If the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran wishes to bring about its own down fall, that's fine by the rest of us as long as no Americans are hurt in the process.

[Eric M Vega]

01:47 PM on 05/30/2011

It's just sad! Another country falling behind!

[TaxedCitizen]

09:37 AM on 05/30/2011

They better use lieberman as an consultant if they want to get it right.

[MIKEinNYC]

09:15 AM on 05/30/2011

I hope they do it. The Iranian people will not stand for it. That will be the last straw before the Iranian people topple the government. How are people supposed to live without email, jokes, porn, the HP?

[fairwayhill]

05:14 AM on 05/30/2011

So called "lsrael" is stolen Palestine.

[nk5otr]

02:09 PM on 05/30/2011

This is off-topic for an article discussing Iran unplugging the Internet.

[greeneyes51654m]

05:51 PM on 05/30/2011

History proved you wrong several thousand years ago. Stay on topic.

[EdwardMRoche]

02:22 AM on 05/30/2011

Another silly policy. The Iranian government, such as it is, can no more destroy the Internet than the Internet can destroy Islam. Both ideas are absurd.

[MyTake]

12:27 AM on 05/30/2011

Oh no, The Pratt House will order up yet another U.S. Military Invasion over this transgression!

[Amryxx]

10:21 PM on 05/29/2011

Meh. If China can't do it, what hope does Iran have?

[wakeupyouall]

09:10 PM on 05/29/2011

That will set them back to the middle ages. Just where we want them.

[aFtersootdamP]

06:24 AM on 05/30/2011

Your wrong on both counts. It's the iranian government that wants to be back in the middle ages. We want them in the 21st century with the rest of the civilized nations.

[Redwood Eagle]

07:30 PM on 05/29/2011

This will just give the right wing in the US some new ideas.

[Hunter3203]

07:24 PM on 05/29/2011

Can you imagine how interesting an internet designed by and controlled by the Theocracy in Iran will be? Iran YouTube - videos on how to properly discipline your wife, Iran Hulu - reruns of last weeks public floggings and an all new special about last month's hangings.

And to think the Mullahs wonder why their kids are interested in everything American.

[Amryxx]

05:04 PM on 05/29/2011

Dang it! Stop posting misleading headlines!

I thought Iran is going to unplug the Internet for *everyone*. Although now that I think about it, that's sort of impossible without American participation.

[CynicalAgnostic]

06:28 AM on 05/30/2011

"without american participation"? So if america decided to, you think they could take down the internet for everyone else? Really?

[Andra Claudia Garcia]

04:49 PM on 05/29/2011

I would have loved to read the rest of the article...but I do not subscribe to the Wall Street Journal...