Iran’s Telecommunications Ministry will start filtering “immoral” video and audio messages sent via mobile phones, state television reported on Saturday.
The Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, a body set up after Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, has instructed the ministry to buy the equipment needed to prevent any misuse of Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), it said.
It did not give details of the techniques it would use to filter such messages, when it would start or how it would define “immoral” messages.
Gee. I wonder who they could come to for advice?
I wonder how much immoral MMSing is going on in Iran? Is it a big problem?
How much sexual gratification can you get form 2″ low-rez porno? (I’ve never seen it myself — really!)
Gee, is that a cellphone in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Sorry for yet another post, but what about bluetooth?
Down in my neck of the woods people (mainly “dudes”) just swap pr0n around on their cellphones every time they meet, after dinner, at the local café…
How can you filter that?
JoaoPT,
So, how satisfying is porn on a cell phone? Seriously — it seems like a totally lame way to get sexual titillation. What you describe about sharing porn after dinner seems really — well — pathetic to me.
So is an immoral post in Iran the same in China? or Korea?
The bad part is where they put the phone to hide it from the thought police… I think we should pron-spam the heck out of every cellphone/server in Iran… a kind of e-war…. let’s see how good they are.
My guess not so good.. Is there even an Internet in Iran?
#4 and so it is…
But hey, just look at the cellphone ringtone and pic download business.
It’s huge…
#7 no pun intended…
And this pisses up the Republicans because the Iranians did it first and now they cannot do that with being compared with them.
Oooooh, babes in Burkhas, is that like ‘girls gone wild’? I see a business opportunity here.
bill,
Of course there is Internet in Iran! The USA provides unfiltered access through Anonymizer.com services. A similar service exists in Iraq.
http://www.pariyan.com
There’s lots of people here with sex on the brain. It must have something to do with living in a predominantly Christian society with a lot of noisy fundamentalists, raving all over the landscape.
I suspect in Iran “immoral messages” might primarily refer to free speech, revealing free thought, etcetera.
#12 – You’re probably right. Free speech and free thought are pretty much hated by religious zealots everywhere, for the same reasons politicians of a certain type hate free speech and free thought. It’s about power, alpha status, hidden agendas and keeping the sheeple well controlled.
Just ban all cellphones. rofl – stupid religious pundits always get their way anyway