Re: [Foundation-l] Iran plans to turn off Internet

2012-01-11 Thread Gregory Varnum
Perhaps if Iran makes this official publicly, or they actually do it, the Foundation, or maybe some volunteers, can respond via the blog? At least that gets it into the discourse - but doesn't commit the Foundation itself to anything. I'm optimistic it will be resolved first through political

Re: [Foundation-l] Iran plans to turn off Internet

2012-01-10 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Mono mium wrote: > Unfortunately, the kind of political action editors wished to promote in > situations like Italy or the USA wouldn't have the same effect in more > restrictive countries like China or Iran. > This is not accurate. People are inspired by actions i

Re: [Foundation-l] Iran plans to turn off Internet

2012-01-08 Thread Mono mium
Unfortunately, the kind of political action editors wished to promote in situations like Italy or the USA wouldn't have the same effect in more restrictive countries like China or Iran. On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Gregory Varnum wrote: > Given the conversations about Bosnia and SOPA, I felt

[Foundation-l] Iran plans to turn off Internet

2012-01-08 Thread Gregory Varnum
Given the conversations about Bosnia and SOPA, I felt this was worth mentioning. There are a number of stories online about the government limiting Internet access within Iran: http://mashable.com/2012/01/06/iran-intranet-tests/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57354267-83/iran-squeezes-web-sur