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This blog is being blocked in Iran

Brian Leiter

An Iranian philosopher informs me that this mild-mannered blog is now being blocked in Iran (part of a pattern, my correspondent suggests, of actions by the current "Minister of Science," a religious nut and 'convicted' scientific plagiarist!).  I assume it's not because of my opposition to a US attack on Iran or my critical commentary on Israeli crimes, but because of my coverage of the World Philosophy Day fiasco (and perhaps other items unfavorable to the theocrats in charge).  Alas, some dictators are just impossible to please. 

I hope Iranian readers will be able to access content of interest through other channels.  Anyone with advice about how to circumvent the official censors, please post in the comments–anonymously is fine, under the circumstances!

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7 responses to “This blog is being blocked in Iran”

  1. Juhani Yli-Vakkuri

    There's a piece of software made just for this purpose: "Expat Shield":

    http://expatshield.com/

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  2. Anonymous

    This website might help: http://peacefire.org/ Someone in the US can set up a proxy server (even home computers work, though with a lot of people it's easy to max out your bandwidth). It works best if you have a static IP given to you by your ISP (not common) or if you have a domain name that your router can update its IP address to. My friends and I used to use this to get past our draconian high school filter.

    If that's too much work, apparently they send out e-mails with new circumventor sites every few days.

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  3. Jason Brennan

    I'm guessing it's not your dislike of Ronald Reagan that's getting you blocked.

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  4. Schmidhauser

    There's also http://proxify.com and http://www.switchproxy.com — both are web based and thus super easy to handle. For info, see http://proxy.org.

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  5. Anonymous

    I'm not in the least surprised that they did this, as this blog is political and has previously targeted the ruling regime in Iran. I'm not sure what the technical vocabulary for working around internet censorship is in English, but in Iran it's referred to as "breaking filters." It's widely practiced, especially among the youth, and presents them with little or no problem. When I was there during the election and protests in 2009, my cousin and I had no problem viewing various blocked sites. The real problem is that the regime controls the speed of the internet and can and does often bring it to a standstill. This is what often makes it impossible to view important material, especially videos that would undermine the regime's propaganda.

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  6. Andresa Moser

    When I was in Iran in 2009 (http://andreasmoser.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/reports-about-my-trip-to-iran-in-junejuly-2009/) I used FreeGate which was given to me in an Iranian internet cafe. Almost everyone there was surfing on blocked websites.
    Despite many articles about Iran, my blog still seems to be available there.

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  7. wmw

    Also blocked in PR China

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