Monday, June 22, 2009
Ditch that Nokia phone
In the days that followed, Iran has tightened the spigot without closing it entirely. Even before the election, the country was known to operate one of the world’s most sophisticated Web filtering systems, with widespread blockades on specific Web sites. According to a spate of news reports in April, including one in The Washington Times, some of the monitoring technology was provided by Nokia Siemens Networks, a joint venture between Nokia, the Finnish cellphone maker, and Siemens, the German technology giant.
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Where is the "Nokia is frying my brains" label?
Is it just me, or has there been a shift in the political outspokenness since Dubya went out, and Obama came in?
For example, in the Western European realm, Sarky rightly railed against the burka, and Tehran tossed out two Brits for "unconventional behavior." (In other contexts, 'unconventional behavior' may simply mean the peculiar Brits were merely acting like peculiar Brits.) Obama, meanwhile, has been accused of being particularly silent on the issue of the Iranian election.
Perhaps we're witnessing another moment whereby the forces of history brought about some kind of informal Franco-Brit alliance against the absurdity of religion that, in this case, is symbolized by the nation of Iran and Islam.
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