US 'terminates' Iranian website - BBC

[Oreo]

It's so nice reading real news. Let's see if this story ever shows up here. The push is on...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4202617.stm
US 'terminates' Iranian website

The row has prompted calls for Iran to develop its own internet servers
Iran has accused the US government of ordering an American internet service provider to stop hosting the website of an official Iranian news agency.

The Iranian Student News Agency said no explanation had been given by the server, called The Planet, for its abrupt move to terminate the contract.
Isna, which is widely read in Iran, says it has moved to another server, which it did not name.

The Planet was unable to comment immediately on the allegations.
The row has led to calls for Iran to develop its own satellite technology.

[Oversea Visitor]

1. Yikes

Time to terminate hosting contract in US and put it in EU.

[David__77]

2. Why they worked through a US domain I have no idea.

It doesn't make any sense. They could easily find an alternative though. The internet is a broad democratic thing.

[Oreo]

3. Just not in the US!

Time for everybody to buy backup space on a non-US ISP.

The gestapo... I mean administration can say it's terrorist propaganda all they want about this site but what scares me is what's to stop them from doing the same for DU or other sites that don't buy the BS they shovel out.

[Earth_First]

4. Does anyone else read the headlines nowadays...

and think to themselves. This is too surreal to be true.

[dvaravati]

5. They did the same shit on 9/10/2001

http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,549590,00.html

[Oreo]

6. September 5th

I had never seen that. It says they crashed "last wednesday" which would have been September 5th.

That's an amazing article in hindsight...

Three days later, they were still busy inside the building, reportedly copying every hard disc they could find. InfoCom hosts websites for numerous clients in the Middle East, including al-Jazeera (the satellite TV station), al-Sharq (a daily newspaper in Qatar), and Birzeit (the Palestinian university on the West Bank).

You have to wonder if they got a tip and tried to get specifics from the websites before 9/11.

SCARY

[Tinoire]

8. Steve Emerson & Daniel Pipes were up to their neck in those JTFs

A "Joint Terrorism Task Force" led by Steve Emerson and Daniel Pipes was shutting them down. Those are the 2 names I remember vividly because I had never heard of Emerson before but Pipes involvement in that sent chills down my spine and I started digging around in the days before Sept 11.

Indiana Green, I'm pretty sure, was the one who posted that story about the sites being shut down and raided when it first broke because it stunk big time.

The entire exercise was either one of "prevention", if you're to trust a government that tells you it was caught unawares (but still managed to warn people like Willy Brown not to fly that day) or a deliberate ploy to keep them from communicating before they realized they'd just all been branded as terrorists and enemies of the state.

[Theres-a]

10. Daniel Pipes

From the Sept.10 2001 Guardian UK article: Several Muslim groups have linked the raid to an article which appeared in the Wall Street Journal Aug. 13,written by Daniel Pipes,director of the foreign policy research in Philadelphia.It called on the US to "support Israel in rolling back the forces of terror" by shutting down websites belonging to the Islamic Association for Palestine and the Holy Land Foundation.

[Theres-a]

7. And just WHO benefits?Who are we supporting by this move?

:mad:

[Oreo]

9. Shutting down the Internets...

So the truth can't get out. Blaming it on terrorists. It benefits the administration and their evil minions