Comments on: Khatami Web Sites Filtered

By: Internet & Democracy Blog » Facebook and Iranian Election Redux

Internet & Democracy Blog » Facebook and Iranian Election Redux — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:26:04 +0000

[...] at Global Voices. As we’ve cataloged on this blog over the last couple months, it seems that filtering of Internet content by political threats like former president Khatami has been an overt strategy by the [...]

By: Internet & Democracy Blog » Saberi Ends Hunger Strike for Health Reasons

Wed, 06 May 2009 14:21:23 +0000

[...] case follows a string of similar arrests of bloggers, increased filtering, creation of a Basiji blogger corps, attacks by Islamic hackers on popular Web sites, and the death [...]

By: Iran: When the Internet is Viewed through a Filter [Global voice- Advocacy] « Soyeshin’s Blog

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:49:31 +0000

[...] The answer is yes. Fatemeh Rajabi, is the wife of the Iranian government’s spokesman and a strong supporter of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Still, her site/blog was filtered. She used to insult many other high-ranking Iranian politicians. Websites that favour the former president, Mohammad Khatami, such as Yari News, get filtered too. [...]

By: Global Voices in het Nederlands » Iran: Het internet door een filter zien

Global Voices in het Nederlands » Iran: Het internet door een filter zien — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:26:32 +0000

[...] politici. Websites die de voormalig president, Mohammad Khatami, in een goed daglicht stellen, zoals Yari News, worden ook gefilterd [...]

By: Global Voices Advocacy » Iran: When the Internet is Viewed through a Filter

Global Voices Advocacy » Iran: When the Internet is Viewed through a Filter — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:02:34 +0000

By: » Khatami Bows Out of Presidential Election I&D Blog

» Khatami Bows Out of Presidential Election I&D Blog — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:28:01 +0000

[...] country for their writing. As we have also reported here, it seems that the Iranian government is cracking down on online speech in the lead up to the presidential election, especially opposition [...]

By: » Berkman Releases New ‘Herdict’ Filtering Web Site I&D Blog

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:18:19 +0000

[...] is pleased to announce the launch of the Herdict Web site and Firefox add-on. As we were able to show earlier this week on this blog, crowd sourcing of filtering research can be a powerful new tool for understanding [...]

By: idteam

idteam — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:20:49 +0000

a user inside iran confirms via herdict that yarinews is blocked.

By: Bruce Etling

Bruce Etling — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:36:45 +0000

Great idea. I was just thinking the same thing. I just went to the Herdict web site and it’s visible from cambridge–but we need some folks from inside Iran to check it is visible there, and to report through http://www.herdict.org.

By: sy

sy — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:29:29 +0000

It would be very cool if folks confirmed/denied from their respective locations via Herdict Web: http://www.herdict.org.