[View the story "Iran's Halal Internet" on Storify ]Iran's Halal Internet Iran announces plans to create an entirely new Internet built on Islamic principles. Storified by The Stream · Wed, Oct 26 2011 21:59:43
Earlier this month, Ali Aghamohammadi, Iran's head of economic affairs, was quoted in state-run news agency IRNA as saying the government was working on a "halal" version of the Internet.
“Iran will soon create an internet that conforms to Islamic principles, " he said, "to improve its communication and trade links with the world."techeye.net
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And according to Aghamohammadi this will mean ditching the old World Wide Web in favour of a parallel network that will help promote the use of the nation’s Farsi language, telling IRNA "The aim of this network is to increase Iran and the Farsi language's presence in what has become the most important source of international communication."techeye.net
Iran's Internet penetration rate—the percentage of the population that is online—hovers around 35 percent, the highest percentage in the Middle East behind Israel. technologyreview.com
It would be unlikely, but not technically impossible, for Iran to step up its censorship and filtering regime to create this "halal Internet." After all, most Cubans, for example, are priced out of the actual Internet and steered towards the Cuban equivalent, which is restricted to an internal e-mail network, and a handful of pro-government sites. In a similar vein, the Chinese Internet is limited largely only to websites that the government doesn't view as threatening.technologyreview.com
The idea of Internet filters based on moral and religious beliefs is not new.
@colmanjones check out http://taqwa.me created something that lets its users decide whats 'halal' http://bit.ly/diSLOD http://bit.ly/eAenhgtaqwame
TotalNetGuard will filter out non-Christian elements from your Internet:
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KoshernetKosher filtered Internet access for the Jewish families & businesses, all ofensive sites are restricted, the gateway for Jewish sites on the Internet. Custom web design.
Although it seems like it could be an online hoax, there's even
GodBlock , a web filter that blocks religious content:
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Halal burgers, halal cosmetics. Now Iran wants to create halal internet. Curious what's going to be converted to halal next!Rapido_75
#Iran thinks it's going to "clean up the net", no end of moronic rhetoric & ignorance, http://bit.ly/gLlSl0 #science #scifi #techQuentinBast
The push for stronger control of the Internet, may have been triggered by the
Stuxnet cyber attack used against Iran, as well as a recent computer worm known as
Stars. Iran claims being hit by second cyber attack: Iran's civil defence chief has said the country has been hit by a ... http://bit.ly/gOjcjUTarunbm
'Stars' is the second serious computer worm to hit Iran in the past eight months. Late last year, a powerful virus known as Stuxnet targeted the country's nuclear facilities and other industrial sites.bigpondnews.com
