An nameless reader writes "The WSJ reports that Iran is beginning a repression on www
notes:internet should be capitalized use by its citizens, creating new blocks against foreign content and stepping up surveillance of browsing habits. world wide web cafes in Iran have 15 days to set up or stress.
fastness cameras and start collecting dossier on customers, and people are finding it increasingly hard to use social lead sites. The new restrictions are likely being implemented now to head off dissent and protests about the upcoming parliamentary elections. indisputable to the article, 'The network slack likely heralds the arrival of an initiative Iran has been readying—a "halal" household intranet that it has said will insulate its cb from Western ideology and un-Islamic culture, and eventually replace the Internet. This week's retardness came amid tests of the Iranian intranet, by the book to familial media reports that cited a mouth for a union of computer-systems firms. He said the intranet is set to go live within a few weeks.'"

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