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July 02, 2003

Proliferating Iranian weblogs give voice to taboo topics

Proliferating Iranian weblogs give voice to taboo topics | csmonitor.com

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In a recent entry, LadySun - the handle used by a feisty online diarist - takes aim at the strict dress code for women, grumbling about a guard who wouldn't let her into a hotel, "cuz I wasn't wearing socks!!"

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Her entry reflects the widespread feelings of frustration over the political deadlock holding back change in Iran.

And no-one is spared LadySun's criticism. She lambastes "this stupid Bush" who has "no idea what kind of people Iranians are" yet releases statements in support of the students. "Where were he and his fellow neoconservative friends when the same Saddam Hussein was bombing Iran with chemical weapons?" she demands.

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...He worked out an easy way to show Persian letters and characters on the Internet, a protocol which Iran's 20,000 bloggers now use.

An Internet boom in Iran has seen the number of users soar by 90 percent in the past year, with about three million users in a population of 65 million - half of them under 25. Some 15 million are expected to be online within the next four years.

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When Internet cafes became popular four years ago, Islamic conservatives saw the Web as the West's latest high-tech weapon in its assault on Islamic values.

One ayatollah railed that pictures that "threaten all of humanity and chastity" could hurtle down phone lines at the speed of light.
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