Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Iran has blocked access to video sharing site YouTube and has put itself in the company of such countries as China, North Korea, Syria and Saudi Arabia, among others, labelled by press freedom advocate Reporters Without Borders as enemies of the Internet.
Reporters Without Borders, said in a statement on
its website that Iran is a country where censorship is now the rule
rather than the exception. An increasing number of overseas and local
opposition websites are being blocked and the Islamic fundamentalist
regime has also blocked high speed Internet access.
"The government is trying to create a digital border to stop culture
and news coming from abroad - a vision of the Net which is worrying for
the country’s future," Reporters Without Borders said.
“But, more generally it is a threat to the worldwide web which, instead
of aiding understanding between peoples could be changed into a medium
of intolerance. The Iranian government policy is not an isolated case.
It is getting closer and closer to that of the authorities in China,
with particular stress being laid on censorship of cultural output.”
Not only has Iran blocked YouTube, but the New York Times and online
information repository Wikipedia have also been blocked and the head of
the Agency for the Development of Information Technology in Iran, Vafa
Ghafaryan, has said that the government planned to enhance surveillance
of “harmful” text messages.
Iran's Internet censorship regime is now being compared to that of
China. However, the atmosphere of repression appears to be more
menacing as, unlike China which has moved to engage the West
economically, Iran under the present regime has sought to isolate
itself from what it sees as decadent Western influences.
David Bass
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