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- sultanknish, on 03/25/2009, -8/+71Death to the Bloggers
This really is a regime we can become close friends with - EMFK, on 03/25/2009, -3/+41If the Iranian government chooses this path, it could very well be the springboard that leads to a revolution.
- Terasiel, on 03/26/2009, -6/+39Anyone else want to explain to me how Iran's political culture is "just different and shouldn't be judged by our Western views?"
- RansomHoldiay, on 03/26/2009, -0/+23one can only hope.
- RansomHoldiay, on 03/26/2009, -0/+19hey iranian government: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssC77hapv0g
- seanstuart, on 03/26/2009, -5/+23Are you kidding? Rush is the best thing going right now for the Democrats.
- inactive, on 03/25/2009, -20/+35Obama is probably planning the same for Rush.
- diguptruth77, on 03/26/2009, -0/+13It's hard to fathom that a human being can just kill another human being for typing some ***** on the internet. I'm starting to believe there might really be Reptilians in power...
- KDX200rider, on 03/26/2009, -0/+12But I thought the USA was the great "Satan".
- Bkaufman, on 03/26/2009, -1/+13Clearly this is somehow related to Israel defending itself.
/s - zyklon, on 03/26/2009, -1/+12Do you think the whiny Livejournal kids will count as offensive bloggers? I sure hope so.
- grimacebrown, on 03/26/2009, -2/+12Roses are Red
Violets Are Blue
Ummmm...
In Iran you're *****. - spriggig, on 03/26/2009, -0/+10Whenever I see a theocracy abusing it's citizens, I praise the separation of church and state and long to make it even stronger. Protect the separation of church and state because it protects you.
- endustry, on 03/26/2009, -0/+9Is it even possible to virtually stone someone over the internets?
- gcnaddict, on 03/26/2009, -0/+9It will. The voice of the people came up when the Shah sent out his secret police. If this government starts killing dissidents, you can bet the people there will rise up.
- billyhoush, on 03/26/2009, -5/+13Half the people on digg need to be stoned to death.
- gcnaddict, on 03/26/2009, -3/+11So true. Rush just about alienated anyone considering calling him/herself a Republican.
Poor GOP... thankfully, they deserve it. - theviceroy, on 03/26/2009, -1/+9How much dissent can a government stifle before it explodes into revolution?
I guess the Iranian government wants to put that question to a test. - mohajaf, on 03/26/2009, -0/+8As an Iranian familiar with the young people in Iran's Internet Cafes, I really do not think they digg you down. In fact they might do the opposite. However, the government has an army of brainwashed fanatics on its payroll who would go around Internet spreading their propaganda. They have already infested the Farsi equivalent of digg (Balatarin.com). Fortunately for us, most of these people do not know English (or anything else that requires a bit of talent) well enough to understand and hence digg you own.
- inactive, on 03/26/2009, -1/+8Try learning some history before you speak.The coup was in 1953.
- gixxer600, on 03/26/2009, -2/+9yea good luck with that ***** iran give it another decade for the old conservative Muslim nutjobs to die off and the young people that are craving change will let you know what they think off your laws
- durruticolumn, on 09/18/2009, -1/+8
"first of all it's unlikely that enough people in iran have internet"
23,000,000 users as of Mar/08, 34.9% penetration.
A full 1/3rd of their population. - inactive, on 03/26/2009, -0/+7Censorship - among many other atrocities - is one of at least four characteristics of the typical dictatorship. Any country, any government that does not unequivocally respect individual rights loses all legitimate claim to national rights and therefore forfeits its warrant to govern or exist. The viewpoint of savages isn't equal to the viewpoint of the truly civilized, therefore, the genuinely civilized always are justified and, in fact, have a responsibility to suppress the behavior of the savage. Any nation genuinely civilized, i.e. consistently respectful of individual rights, has the moral justification to forcibly disband such oppressive power to restore the liberty of its people to freely exercise their right to self-determination in human relationships. There is no and can be no "right to enslave". This is precisely the behavior of the Iranian government in general and certainly the nature of its atrocious thinking and behavior inflicting censorship on freedom of speech with the threat of summary execution.
If there are any genuinely civilized nations left in the world - and I do not automatically assume the United States to be in that company - they have every justification to invade and disband the Iranian government and have my full support in doing so. If you, in fact, value civilization - i.e., a human social construct that consistently respects the liberty of every individual to exercise their right to self-determination - then you MUST also agree an oppressive state such as that of Iran and other similar nations must be disbanded and its oppressed peoples freed. If you do not, any claim on your part to respect for civilization is less than genuine. - Betrayal, on 03/26/2009, -2/+8Iran is actually a beautiful place.
Too bad ruled by an idiotic government. But we can blame it on the good ol' USA partially when they were complicit in throwing over the much more democratic one in the 70'ies. - CVL4317, on 03/26/2009, -1/+7Iran should really consider the death penalty for extremely-sensitive AND narrow minded people.
- footodors, on 03/26/2009, -2/+8take a stand, you spineless wonder!
- makkaveli19, on 03/26/2009, -0/+6their.
- LordStandley, on 03/26/2009, -3/+8What a backwards ***** country. I am amazed at how much ignorance these countries can demonstrate year after year.
- inactive, on 03/26/2009, -1/+6half the people on digg are spied by MOSSAD and gov
- Xephyr, on 03/26/2009, -0/+5Just an uneducated idiot, move along now...
- inactive, on 03/26/2009, -3/+8>>Iran considering the death penalty for ‘offensive’ bloggers.
The religion of peace & tolerance strikes again.
I'll be sure to promote drug use, homosexuality and put an image of Mohhammad buggering a billy goat in my blog just to make sure I make their list. - JakeyG14, on 03/26/2009, -0/+5A potential criminal.
- SCOSE23, on 03/26/2009, -1/+6Becarefull what you say, we need everyone possible for JUNE THE 4TH...
- diguptruth77, on 03/26/2009, -0/+4Best laugh I've had all day. Dugg.
- Xephyr, on 03/26/2009, -0/+4typing -> intent -> execution
"***** bush" -> would like to rape bush -> rapes bush - whatthefu, on 03/26/2009, -0/+4Allah is the Arabic word for God.
- inactive, on 03/26/2009, -0/+4That's actually something an imam made up. No basis in the Koran.
- bluebirdgm, on 03/26/2009, -0/+4Coming soon: diggyourgrave.com?
- andyb747, on 03/26/2009, -5/+9Iran is a demonic state that is posing a serious threat to civilization
(if you are sitting in an internet cafe in iran digging me down go ahead but you know your government is ***** up) - nvisionsunshine, on 03/26/2009, -0/+3You can take a lot away from a person, but the freedom of being entitled to your own public opinion is priceless.
With all do respect, I would not want to live in a place where I could not share my thoughts and express myself. It would certainly kill my spirit. - theviceroy, on 03/26/2009, -0/+3those damned art students!
- Fruit45, on 03/26/2009, -0/+3US, included.
- inactive, on 03/26/2009, -2/+5Can we somehow apply this to Twitter?
- gcnaddict, on 03/26/2009, -0/+3Terasiel, I'm not saying that people here won't understand the act itself. I'm saying that people won't understand why the act is left unpunished in the middle east.
Jihadis, I love how you edited your comment. Your revised statement doesn't change my point. - gcnaddict, on 03/26/2009, -1/+4"It is not right for person Q to judge the actions of person P if person Q's culture far removes person Q from understanding the perspective and culture of person P."
The Spanish didn't understand the reasons behind the Aztec religious system. Does that mean the Aztecs got it wrong?
The Japanese see suicide as an honorable act, but we think it's a sin. Does that mean that what the Japanese are doing is wrong? The difference here is that the en-masse suicides of Japanese pilots during WWII infringed on our rights to life and happiness, which was why we attacked back. However, in everyday cultural affairs, when we're not affected, we can't judge others' culture because we're filtering their culture through our own.
Cultural systems determine what we think is right and wrong. Thus, what we think is right and wrong can *never* be applied to a significantly different culture. - inactive, on 03/26/2009, -1/+4Nope, there is no excuse for this, it is wrong, and so are the people doing it.
- dusanmal, on 03/26/2009, -0/+3Have you been there and talked with the people? Middle-aged part of population who still remember the free times are the strongest opposition. Young people are brainwashed extremists by the large margin.
- kooredaan, on 03/26/2009, -3/+6I thought 'liberating' Iraq was supposed to spread US values through the region.... Hmmm. How could that have possibly gone wrong?
- inactive, on 03/26/2009, -5/+7You know, they execute gays in Iran, too. But it's not until they come after your precious blogs that you get interested in the awful things that happen there?
- FujoGusto, on 03/26/2009, -0/+2I'm not so sure about that bud. Or you could be right and this is a very straight man with a celebrity gossip blog all covered in pink: http://perezhilton.com/
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