Inside Iran

After the blockage of my first weblog in Iran (around 2 years ago), I’ve started writing in English and also started a new Persian blog at the FreeKeyboard.net . I used to have 5000 unique visitors in my first blog and after a while, the second one also got this momentum and used to have around 3000 daily visitors a couple of months ago.

The first censorship was very difficult for me. After it whoever (including myself) who typed the URL (www.jadi.net those days), would see an annoying page.

I’ve lost around 80% of my internal readers. The second time happened a couple of months ago. This time I just continued writing in my blog based on the hope that more and more people are learning to bypass this silly censorship.

After two months, have a look at my weblogs stats:

Lovely chart! The censorship has no effect of the number of my visitors. I’m not happy just because I still have readers but I’m very glad to see that the majority of Iranian people are able to bypass regimes filtering.

Filtering is always silly. The regime may improve it’s technical abilities and may spend more and more money on censorship. It may even succeed in preventing people from reading about “other” ideas but filtering will still remain a silly act, because one day people will read whatever they want. And the loosed will be the person who is afraid of this.

Dear Censor! If you know that people will not accept your ideas if they read “other” ideas, it’s time to update yourself.

Here is the version which published in Iranian newspapers:

There is something fishy in this photo! Are they wearing trousers under their skirts ?! Google delivers the original photo:

Woww! So the problem is pornographic legs and that RED flag. You know? China is one of Iran’s best allies and Iran -being an pro Islam state these days- is one of the most anti-communism counties!