Jan Haugland: Blasphemous MetabloggingSecular Blasphemy is blogging about bloggingClampdown on blogs in Iran as Ahmadinejad starts his own- August 13, 2006 It is getting increasingly difficult to be a blogger in Iran: Iranian authorities are stepping up arrests and pressure on popular bloggers as part of a wider Internet clampdown launched after hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became president last year, ending years of freewheeling Web access that once made Iran among the most vibrant online locales in the Middle East. The Internet censors are busy. Their targets include sexual content, international politics, local grumbling, chat rooms and...http://blogs.salon.com/0001561/categories/blasphemicMetablogging/2006/08/14.html#a9532 |