The Blame Deflector is a product that is becoming very trendy among Iranian authorities. Once taken, its main effects are blocking the conscience receptors, and dissolving the testes in a short span, so the user can then effortlessly lift liability from his shoulders and drop it on the floor, or throw it in the air, [...]
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Ever since Qods Day, we are having difficulties with internet connections, mostly because the proxy services are either unstable or not working at all. I can’t say if this is affecting everyone, but people I’ve checked with are all complaining. The two better options we had were VPN and TOR, simply because we know how [...]
On March 28, 2009, between the hours of 8:30 and 9:30, I didn’t vote. Did I? Maybe I did. No, I don’t think I did. I remember…I returned from a trip. That’s right. I got home at about 8:30. It was dark, I was tired, I flipped the switch. I went to the kitchen and [...]
To whom it may concern, Over the past three weeks, the “YouTube” and “Facebook” websites have been intermittently available to internet users in Iran. On the day I noticed this problem, I was greatly saddened over the matter but thought that perhaps my ISP had made an error in their filtering systems’ configurations, despite the [...]
Everyone knows that internet usage in Iran is subject to filtering. Like parents limiting the sites their children can visit by clicking “Parental Control” on their routers, the Islamic Republic too redirects us to “Access Denied” pages when we input the wrong words in our browsers. Depending on which ISP is the carrier, this is [...]