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Iranians get some services back

Iranians have a little more Internet access than a few days ago, but access is still highly restricted. Last week, the country imposed a block on SSL-based VPNs which, it seems, is still in place. Barring SSL/TLS traffic stopped Iranians from using the well-known TOR Project to bypass state censorship of Internet sites. In …

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Religion and politics

Always a dangerous mix.

</my5cworth>

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Mushroom

like sodium and water...

But always fun to watch from a safe, very safe, distance.

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the wall

history teaches us nothing. 40 years later, they'll come back to the world just like East Germany (DDR) did.

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"The more you tighten your grip, the more they will slip through your fingers..."

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*Admittedly slightly modified for the purposes of this post.

Mushroom

Iran used to be a secular democracy.

But then the UK and USA stepped in.

Rob Newman's "A History Of Oil in the 20th Century" comes highly reccomended.

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I don't understand...

Where are Anonymous, LulzSec, Assange™, et al...?

Isn't this exactly the sort of stifling of free expression that they say they're against?

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