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Iran Plans to Cut Itself Off from Internet to Shield its People from 'Dangerous' Ideas
yahoo ^ | 5/29/11 | Mark Whittington Mark Whittington –

Posted on 05/30/2011 5:28:05 AM PDT by Flavius

Iran, like many other dictatorships, has wrestled with the problem (at least from its point of view) of shielding their people from what it considers to be dangerous ideas about freedom and human rights, transmitted via the Internet.

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KEYWORDS: thought
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1 posted on 05/30/2011 5:28:07 AM PDT by Flavius
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To: Flavius

dangerous ideas......common sense


2 posted on 05/30/2011 5:33:06 AM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Flavius

Electricity should be fatwad to be haaram.


3 posted on 05/30/2011 5:35:07 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Flavius
Obama would love to do that, too!

Renewed Push to Give Obama an Internet "Kill Switch"

4 posted on 05/30/2011 5:35:24 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: Flavius

Doubtless Obama, the boy king, is considering similar action. (Under the radar at present, but soon to come to a neighborhood near you.)


5 posted on 05/30/2011 5:37:30 AM PDT by hershey
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To: Flavius

Glasnost killed the Soviet Union.


6 posted on 05/30/2011 5:41:34 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot)
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To: Flavius

Iran’s giving Obama some ideas.


7 posted on 05/30/2011 5:42:10 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Democrats- Forgetting 9/11 since 9/12/01)
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To: Flavius

Another mail in Iran’s coffin if they try that!


8 posted on 05/30/2011 5:43:06 AM PDT by WellyP
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To: Flavius

They may be getting lessons from the White House. Sounds familiar. Muslims and Socialists are very similar.


9 posted on 05/30/2011 5:44:54 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (Socialism...Easier said than done.)
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To: Flavius

There are plenty of folks at MSNBC/White House who’d like to see Americans shielded from ‘dangerous ideas’ discussed on conservative websites and talk radio.


10 posted on 05/30/2011 5:48:49 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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"Iran Plans to Cut Itself Off from Internet to Shield its People from 'Dangerous' Ideas"

American TOTALITARIANS want to do the same thing here.

It's all the same thing--the determination to control and to impose dogma!

Truth is the most dangerous idea of all!

11 posted on 05/30/2011 7:19:29 AM PDT by Savage Beast (You can, in fact must, shout 'Fire!' in a crowded theatre. It just must be the truth. Jonah Goldberg)
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Iran Plans to Cut Itself Off from Internet to Shield its People from 'Dangerous' Ideas

The only way they will keep people from thinking "dangerous" thoughts is to "cut off" their heads.

Oh, that's right...they already do...

12 posted on 05/30/2011 7:26:28 AM PDT by moovova (Obama...a man, a president, a loser.)
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GOOD! Then our youth won’t be taking to them and be hearing the BIG LIES about what a peaceful people they are and how they want to live in a democracy, when they’ll just choose some other Muslim dictator to run their country.


13 posted on 05/30/2011 7:27:38 AM PDT by RowdyFFC
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