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Iran:Government Bans Fast Internet

Thursday, October 19th, 2006 @ 16:25 UTC

by Farid Pouya

Countries:: Iran
Topics:: Cyber-Activism, Media, Protest, Technology

According to media, service providers have been told to restrict online speeds to 128 kilobytes a second and been forbidden from offering fast broadband packages. A teenage blogger, Kourosh Ziabary wrote an open letter in his blog to Minister of Communication and criticised government on this subject [Fa].

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[...] 在GVO那里看到Iran政府限制上网速度。 Iran’s Islamic government has opened a new front in its drive to stifle domestic political dissent and combat the influence of western culture – by banning high-speed internet links. [...]

# 2006-10-21 at 13:04 pm

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