Finally, after almost a month I heard back from Bluehost. Better late than never, especially if it’s excellent news. I had written a letter to Matt Heaton asking for help in getting information regarding Bluehost’s decision to shut out people in sanctioned countries from their hosting service (here’s the post), and he finally answered. To tell you the truth I had given up hope on getting a response from him and wasn’t in the mood for becoming a pest. But he proved to be the well-mannered gentleman they say he is and I’m glad I didn’t make a fool of myself. I won’t get into the details about how and why Bluehost got to the point they did and switched off websites belonging to unsuspecting citizens of the underworld. Let bygones be bygones. Instead I’ll focus on the good news. He redirected me to someone in their legal department and it looks like there is going to be some changes made to their policies very soon. This guy says that according to Presidential Executive Order 040109 all sanctions imposed on Iran shall be lifted. Barak Obama’s recent new years greeting to Iranians and their leaders especially, which sat well with Ali Khamenei, got the two men to shake hands on the deal. Of course this is all hush hush for now but I don’t care, let the news break.
The long term effects of this move on our leaders is quite clear, but as for how this would affect us citizens, let me tell you that Bluehost will be offering free lifetime no-limit hosting to all Iranians. They’ll be putting a link on their site by next week for people to register and provide proof of citizenship. How’s that for owning an Iranian passport now, eh? Respect.
Now I feel bad for others who were in the same boat with me. I will be writing a letter to President Obama today to ask him to include The Balkans, Belarus, Burma, Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, former Liberian Regime of Charles Taylor, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and Zimbabwe in his next new year address so that they would get a good deal from Bluehost too.
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