From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Mon Jun 25 2001 - 07:46:28 MDT
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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 09:08:49 -0400
From: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Reply-To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
To: ip-sub-1@majordomo.pobox.com
Subject: IP: Iran Takes Tough Measures to Stop Internet Use
>Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 08:45:20 -0400
>To: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu (David Farber)
>From: Jean Armour Polly <mom@netmom.com>
>Subject: Iran Takes Tough Measures to Stop Internet Use
>
>Sunday June 24 4:27 AM ET
>
>Iran Takes Tough Measures to Stop Internet Use
>
>TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's state telecoms monopoly has ordered tough new
>restrictions on Internet use, requiring service providers to block some
>sites and barring access to the Web for under-18s, newspapers said on Sunday.
>
>Regulations issued by the Iran Telecommunications Company order Internet
>service providers (ISPs) to filter all materials presumed immoral or
>contrary to state security, including the Web sites of opposition groups,
>the Hambastegi newspaper said.....
>Police closed down more than 400 Internet cafes in Tehran last month
>demanding owners obtain licenses to stay in business......
>The cafes are popular with the overwhelmingly youthful population of the
>Islamic Republic, where the state media are tightly controlled by
>conservatives.
>
>a little more of this story:
>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010624/wr/iran_access_dc_1.html
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