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New Iran Law Carries Death Penalty For 'Online Crimes'

therawfeed.com — A new law in Iran threatens bloggers and webmasters with the death penalty for "promoting CORRUPTION, PROSTITUTION AND APOSTASY." These online "crimes" join "insulting Islam, drug trafficking... subversive activities against national security, spying and separatist propaganda." as capital punishment offenses in Iran. What's left to blog about?

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  • ironeus, on 08/01/2008, -1/+3Well that's basically an open ticket to put away anyone opposing ahmadinejad. As if he couldn't already.
  • Gnasher2007, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2And elsewhere ... 49% of Americans think the Internet should be government regulated. People are the same idiots everywhere.
  • Fangsinmybeard, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Hey, isn't the U.S. Congress considering the same legislation?
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