Sunday, December 04, 2005

National Iranian Oil Company Pays a Visit to Kokonut Pundits

Why did somebody from the National Iranian Oil Company in Iran visit my Kokonut Pundits blogsite just a few hours ago?


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Isn't Iran under an internet tyranny restricting nearly everybody from accessing the internet through brute force censorships? Or perhaps somebody was smart enough to go around banned websites and access other blog sites for political news and information like mine?

Iranian filtering currently uses the “smart filter” technology developed by the US company Secure Comuting, which claims the Iranian authorities never paid to license this software. Iranian Internet censorship is not homogenous and varies according to the ISP used, of which Iran has several hundred. So a website may be accessible in one city and blocked in another.

Access to at least four websites that include coverage of Iranian women’s issues - www.womeniniran.org, http://irwomen.com, www.iftribune.com and www.womeniw.com - has been blocked since the start of September. Those in charge of these sites have reacted by launching an online petition at : www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?womeno.


Whoever visited my archived site stayed around long enough to peruse many of my blogs, including one blog where I discussed about Iranian and Iraqi bloggers and how Juan Cole have called for a flashmob to protest the Iranian government's jailing of dissident bloggers. This was in response to the popularity of a Website calling for a day of blog action concerning the dissidents.

If the visit was an innocent one. Welcome. But if not, down with Iran's tyranny and their destruction of freedom and democracy!! You are being watched, too.

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