Hadi Nili
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I am an Iranian journalist and blogger, studied Sociology, with interests and experiences in New Media and citizen journalism.
As a journalist and as an online citizen, I have been enjoying Persian blogosphere and cyberspace in Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, and Friendfeed.
I'm on twitter @ HadiMirror.
Latest posts by Hadi Nili
15 May 2012
Politics
An online campaign against lashes for Iranian cartoonist turned to be successful. Mahmoud Shokrayeh was sentenced to 25 lashes for a caricature of a local MP, Ahmad Lotfi. Iranian cartoonists launched a campaign on Facebook and cyberspace to draw Mr. Lotfi's cartoons in condemning this verdict. You can see some of this cartoons here. Eventually the MP announced that he is withdrawing his complaint.
13 May 2012
Governance
According to official statistics,28.5 millions of Iranians are estimated to have access to Internet connection in 1154 cities of Iran. This figures says more than 2.1 millions of this Iranian users have ADSL connection and the rest are connected via dial-up. Iranian government has restricting rules for Internet connection of citizens and only academic and business users can have broadband connections more than 128 kbps.
10 May 2012
Governance
Iran's minister of communications prohibited using ‘foreign' mail services like Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, and MSN, since he believes ‘they are tools for information leak'. Reza Taghipour has asked Iranian state offices, universities and companies to use Iranian mail services ‘which are hosted in Iran'.
12 April 2012
Governance
Reporters Without Borders says Iranian authorities have put detained Iranian web developer Mohammad SoleimaniNia under pressure to have his skills for running ‘The National Internet'. Iranian government have already talked about launching a network inside called ‘The National Internet'. RSF has urged for immediate release of Mr. SoleimaniNia who has been under arrest for last 3 months. He “hosts and manages websites of many Iranian civil society communities and intellectuals”, due to RSF report.
10 April 2012
Governance
A few hours after announcement on Facebook acquisition of famous mobile application Instagram, Iranian users are complaining about losing access to their older photos on the service. Mehrdad, based in Tehran, says [Fa]: ‘I can not load any image older than a couple of days without anti-filter tools'.
9 April 2012
Freedom of Speech
Here is a video cartoon, portraying what Iranian users face in Iran for connecting to the Internet. The video invites online users around the world to follow #ConnectIran tag on twitter.
31 March 2012
Environment
Iranians are going to celebrate the “Earth Hour” today Saturday 31st of March. Here in this Farsi-language website, Iranians are organizing the “Earth Hour” events, including turning-off lights for an hour ‘to protect the planet'. Parham, an Isfahan-based user, tweets: ‘They are going to turn off Si-o-se Pol (historical bridge) in Isfahan. I guess this is the first time I would see this bridge to be in darkness'.
17 March 2012
Politics
Omid Hosseini, An Iranian blogger who has been actively supporting Mahmoud Ahmadienajd in 2009 presidential election and rejecting the post-election protests, writes [fa] in his blog: ‘I'm sorry that I voted for Ahmadinejad in last election. I repent for that. I'm sorry that I voted for him to justify his law-breaking in the name of me and other voters.' By Wednesday March 14th, Iran's parliament questioned President Ahmadinejad over a list of accusations, including that he mismanaged the nation's economy and disobeyed the parliament's legislation. Ahmadienejad's answers received negative reactions in parliament and in political scene.
Governance
Hamid Shahriari, a member of newly-formed Iranian National Council of Cyberspace says [fa]: “Social networks have presented so many threats to the country and we are worried about some parts of these networks”. In recent weeks Iranian authorities have asked some users to 'stop or reduce' their online activities. In last 3 years and after 2009 protests, Iran has accused social networks of ‘encouraging unrest' in that country.
Politics
Iran's parliament questioned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over a list of accusations, including that he mismanaged the nation's economy and disobeyed the parliament's legislation. Ahmadienejad humiliated those members of the parliament who have signed this questions, saying that they ‘may have received their post-graduate degree just by pressing a button'. Iranian users reacted to this remarks by making jokes about ‘the button' under the hash-tag of شاسی# in twitter. Bahareh, a Tehran-based user, tweets [fa]: Does Mahmoud even know how to answer a question?
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