Internetzensur: Vom Iran lernen heißt Siegen lernen

„Wir fördern das Recht auf freie Meinungsäußerung“, sagte US-Außenministerin Hillary Clinton. „Ein Aspekt dieses Rechts sei die Nutzung von Twitter, nicht nur von Menschen im Iran, sondern zunehmend in der ganzen Welt. Diese Kommunikationskanäle offenzuhalten und Menschen zu ermöglichen Informationen auszutauschen und sich zu organisieren, sei besonders wichtig zu einem Zeitpunkt, da es nicht sehr viele andere Informationsmöglichkeiten gebe, fügte Clinton hinzu.“

Dabei forderten die Jugendminister aller Bundesländer noch vor zwei Wochen über jugendschutz.net auf, den Internetdienst Twitter politisch zu säubern und verwiesen auf die Anleitung „zum NPD-Rausschmiss“ einer SPD-Initiative: „Anmelden, das Mitglied ,npdde’ suchen und dann noch auf ,block npdde’ gehen. Machen das genügend Twitterer, war es das für die Rechtsextremen.“

Eine Handlungsanweisung, die auch für die Machthaber im Iran denkbar einfach ist...

Es geht also auch alles ganz demokratisch, man muß sich lediglich eine Truppe bezahlter oder fanatisierter Tugendwächter halten, welche eine öffentliche Meinung vorgaukelt.

Noch sind die offensichtlichen Zensurmaßnahmen plump, ja regelrecht mittelalterlich, sowohl im Iran als auch in der BRD. Perfekt ist der Menschenzoo erst, wenn niemand etwas von Zensur merkt und niemand die Möglichkeit des Vorhandenseins kritischer Nachrichten überhaupt in Betracht zieht.

"Sie können dann beim nächsten Staatsbesuch Herrn Ahmadinedjad oder dessen Nachfolger fragen, wie man seine Bürger am besten bespitzelt."

Brüll und Lach!
Es ist doch wohl eher umgekehrt. Ahmadinedjad hat von Deutschland gelernt (DDR, BRD, DDR-2.0)

Nokia Siemens Networks hat den Iranern das Knowhow geliefert, um die Kommunikation der Internetsurfer im Iran zu blockieren, zu überwachen und sogar zu verändern!

"Was haben meine Mitarbeiter denn in der Arbeitszeit auf Pornoseiten zu surfen??" schreibt AJ79

Ich würde sagen, Sie haben dann wohl nichts zu tun.
Und Tschüß!
Wer stellt solche Mitarbeiter ein?

Klar, viele Nichtstuer wurden eingestellt, die muß man dann schon überwachen ... lach

@AJ79:
Das ist halt der Unterschied zwischen Recht und Vernunft. Wenn Angestellte exzessiv auf Pornoseiten (oder anderswo) surfen, sehe ich vor allem ein Management-Problem, weil die sind dann nämlich offenbar nicht genügend mit Arbeit ausgelastet (deswegen findet man als Administrator entsprechender Angebote in den Logs übrigens auch überdurchschnittlich viele Zugriffe aus IP-Adressräumen, die sich eindeutig auf Behörden/öffentlichen Dienst zurückführen lassen).

Ansonsten sollte man Angestellte nicht nach abgesessener Zeit, sondern nach Leistung beurteilen; ob da jemand 10 Stunden bleibt oder 12, von denen 2 Stunden zur Entspannung gesurft wird, ist im Regelfall egal. Solche Sperren mögen also im libertären Sinne legitim sein, klug sind sie deswegen noch lange nicht.

Im Gegensatz zur reinen Sperre würde ich die heimliche Überwachung/Protokollierung des Datenverkehrs übrigens nicht als durch das Eigentum an der Hardware hinreichend legitimiert betrachten - das Eindringen in die Privatsphäre kollidiert mit dem Selbsteigentum, genau wie die versteckte Überwachungskamera auf dem Klo.

Mal sehen wie sie es mit Nordkorea machen.
Also wenn die Revolution in der DDR 1989 den Helden von Leipzig zuzurechnen ist, lach ich glatt kaputt.Wer war war Gorbatschow?

Below are some amazing reporting by Robert Dreyfus in:
Hostage to Khomeini, ( pp 106 - 108 ) published by:
New Benjamin Franklin House, New York 1980 - ISBN 0-933488-4

The mullahs did not come to rule in Iran on the basis of their own power; they were placed in power by men more evil than they - who would use the depravity of backwardness for their own ends.

In September 1975, the Aspen Institute held a symposium in Persepolis, Iran. The public side of the transactions was published years later under the title of Iran: Past, Present, and Future. In the behind-the-scenes discussion, the plans for reversing the Shah's industrialization program and for turning Iran into a model dark ages regime were mapped out. It is a bitter twist of history, that the Shah and his wife Empress Farah Diba witlessly provided huge amounts of funding to the Aspen project.

Attending the Persepolis symposium were at least a dozen members of the Club of Rome, including its chairman, Aureho Peccei; Sol Linowitz of Coudert Brothers law firm; Jacques Freymond of the Institute of International Studies in Geneva; and Robert 0. Anderson and Rarlan Cleveland, both Aspen Institute officials and associates of the Club of Rome in the United States. Other luminaries were also on hand: Charles Yost, Catherine Bateson, Richard Gardner, Theo Sommer, Daniel Yankelovitch, John Oakes of the New York Times, and the cream of Anglo-Amencan intelligence specialists on Iran, such as James Bill, Marvin Zonis, Leonard Binder, Rouhollah Ramazani, and Charles Issawi.

The Aspen Institute session stressed a single theme: modernization and industry undermine the "spiritual, nonmaterial" values of ancient Iranian society, and these values must he preserved above all else. Ehsan

Naraghi, a collaborator of Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, told the conference:
"Universities and research centers in the West have all based their studies of development upon a linear, Westernizing conception of progress Human sciences, founded on rational objectivity, are today suffering setbacks and defeats. Is it not important that, having exalted rationality to ensure human happiness, we should now he induced to invent a special discipline-psycho-analysis-to cure the ills arising from an overrationally organized life that is deprived of its basic relationship with the nonrational?. . Why should cultures like ours, in which man is considered in all his aspects, be deprived of their substance by following called rational course at the end of which lies the vast expanse of the non-rational?"

He continued: "The people have needs and aspira.tions that are not merely material. . . . The intrusion of machines into the traditional system may well jeopardize this creative life." Naraghi's praise of the "nonrational" was followed by a similar outburst from Hormoz Fekrat of Teheran University. "America has hecome more and more aware of her exaggerated reliance on material values," he told Aspen's gathering. "Conscious movements have been made, during the past fifteen years, to refocus the aims of life to the spiritual. This consciousness has most prominently manifested itself in the attitude of young people toward life.

"Let us now focus our attention on what has been happening in Iran in terms of the point just raised. The country is going through an enormous social upheaval. . . . I believe that the current revolutionary state of the nation, when important far-reaching measures are effectively enacted, provides the right circumstances for a national resurgence in the direction of a moral uprising based on truth and justice."

Spoken three years before the rise of the Khomeini movement in 1978, these words were more than prophetic. They were the marching orders to the clique around Khomeini to charge the Shah with destroying the cultural values of Iran and its Shiite religion by developing industry and "materialist" values.

From 1975 onward, the Aspen Institute developed closer and closer links to the Iranian ministry of education through well-placed agents like Manuchehr Ganji, who introduced both Marvin Zonis 'and the Aspen Institute itself to Iran. Catherine Bateson, of Damavand College in Teheran, was a critical participant in this strategy, sowing the seeds of "antimaterialist" rebellion among Iran's youth.

The word also went to Professor Ali Shariati to intensify his activity. More than anyone else, Shariati was the guiding light behind the Iranian students and intellectuals who brought about the Muslim Brotherhood revolution. Shariati's special ability was to be able to cast the mystical, antiscience Sufi doctrines into terms that might be accepted by modern young people not trained in religious law. Iran's youth could not be won over directly to Khomeini 5 version of Shusm, so it was necessary to create Ali Shariati, who disguised the Sufi doctrines in a radical, almost Marxist cloak. Shariati is the originator of so-called Islamic Marxism.

So radically antimaterialist was Shariati that he saw a willing acceptance of death as the only legitimate "escape" from the material world! 'Do you not see how sweetly and peacefully a martyr dies?" he once wrote. "For those not fully accustomed to their everyday routine, death is an awesome tragedy, a horrendous cessation of all things; it is becoming lost in nothingness. But the one who intends to migrate from himself begins with death. How great are those men who have heeded this command and acted accordingly: 'Die before you die.'

Shariati's father was Aqa Muhammad Taqi Shariati, who had heen part of the British intelligence freemasonic movement and had started the Center for the Propagation of Islamic Truth in Mashad, Iran. Of his father, Shariati says, "He stayed in the city, and strove mightily to preserve himself with knowledge, love, and jihad in the midst of the swamp of urban life." The elder Shariati, he said, was "in the forefront of efforts to bring the modern-educated youth back to faith and Islam, delivering them from materialism, worship of the West, and hostility to religion." It was the battle cry of the Khomeini revolution.

Traveling often between Paris and Teheran, Shariati built up a cult following among the youth of Iran. He introduced Iranian students to the works of Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Albert Camus, Jacques Berque, and Louis Massignon, all writers of the anticapitalist existentialist swamp, all funded and guided by the same Club of Rome networks that gathered at Persepolis.

Fanon's book, The Wretched of the Earth, in which he argues for anarchy and revolution in the Third World directed against "the West" and violence for violence's sake, hecame Shariati's bible. "Come friends, let us abandon Europe," wrote Shariati. "Let us cease this nauseating, apish imitation of Europe. Let us leave behind this Europe that always speaks of humanity but destroys human heings wherever it finds them."

Through his writings and the publication of his Farsi journal, Shariati became something of a legend. In 1977, he was apparently murdered, and although his cult followers-like Ibrahim Yazdi-blamed the Shah for his death, it is more likely that he was killed by his backers in the Savak in order to create a martyr that would spark a movement around his figure. Were it not for Shariati, few students in Iran's universities would have followed ~ the mad Khomeini.

"Zu diesem Zweck wurde ein modernes „Monitoring Center“ bei der iranischen Telefongesellschaft eingerichtet, berichtet das „Wall Street Journal“, das darin einen Riesenskandal erkannt haben will."

Und das glauben wir natürlich alles, weil US-Medien ja völlig frei und ohne politische Hintergedanken berichten...