I'm Jadi. A 27 years old from Tehran / Iran. I blogged for years at my farsi weblog ( www.jadi.net) but these days I'm FILTERED in my own country so I have to write here in english. It's shame but it is the situation !
I am keeping an eye on freedom of expression, censorship, internet filtering and ...
Email: jadijadi at gmail
Note: english IS NOT my native language. I'm not good at it. But I think writing in poor english is much more BETTER THAN not writing at all. But I'll be glad reciveing friendly editorial, spelling, grammer, ... comments and I'll fix and learn.
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Sunday, June 25
Iranians trends while searching internet
by
Jadi
on Sun 25 Jun 2006 03:58 AM PDT
I don't know if you know about google trends or not. It is a service in which you can search for any term and it lists country / city names with most search requests for that term.
I've searched it and tested it for a while and found out some interesting information. I knew that a censored country with a restricted media and 30 years of Islamic government seems to have many problems. as you can see here, if you check Jeffier Lopez in google trends, Tehran is the first with about tree times more searches for this woman.
| | Top cities (normalized) | | | | 1. | Tehran, Iran | | | | 2. | Lima, Peru | | | | 3. | New Delhi, India | | | | 4. | Delhi, India | | | | 5. | Izmir, Turkey | | | | 6. | Zagreb, Hrvatska | | | | 7. | Ankara, Turkey | | | | 8. | Mumbai, India | | | | 9. | Istanbul, Turkey | | | | 10. | Chennai, India | | |
Next interesting issue for me was filtering and how people bypass it. In Iran most people google for PROXY and find new proxy servers and bypass filtering using them. I've searched for farsi equavalent for PROXY to see in which cities people are trying more to bypass filter and as I guessed, QOM (the holy city for iranian shi'i mullahs) was the among the firsts. It means that QOM which is considered to be Islamic Republics major support has the most searches on how to bypass filtering ! have a look your self:
| | Top cities (normalized) | | | | 1. | Kermanshah, Iran | | | | 2. | Qom, Iran | | | | 3. | Ahwaz, Iran | | | | 4. | Arak, Iran | | | | 5. | Babol, Iran | | | | 6. | Qazvin, Iran | | | | 7. | Rasht, Iran | | | | 8. | Shiraz, Iran | | | | 9. | Esfahan, Iran | | | | 10. | Karaj, Iran | | |
It's awfull ! Again I searched for some gender / sexual related terms. While searching for farsi equavalent for BREAST, QOM was seccond again ! and doubtless this holy city was among first cities searching for pornographic content.
| | Top cities (normalized) | | | | 1. | Yazd, Iran | | | | 2. | Qom, Iran | | | | 3. | Esfahan, Iran | | | | 4. | Ahwaz, Iran | | | | 5. | Shiraz, Iran | | | | 6. | Karaj, Iran | | | | 7. | Tabriz, Iran | | | | 8. | Tehran, Iran | | | | 9. | Mashhad, Iran | | |
And the fun part ? when government arrests people / webloggers, they give us full prints of our weblogs (wow.. what a waste of paper / amazon jungels) and asks us why we wrote about this and that. Funnier part is there is no one person which I can show these results and ask'em WHY AFTER 30 YEARS OF ISLAMIC GUIDENCE AND ISLAMIC RISTRICTED MEDIA, THIS IS OUR CASE?
Monday, June 12
Censorship of feminist sites just befor womens demonstration
by
Jadi
on Mon 12 Jun 2006 06:49 AM PDT
Just an hour ago, three feminist sites are censored (Filtered) in Iran !
- www.Hastiandish.org is an feminist NGO which helds workshops and advocate for equal rights. Their previous site (www.hastia.org) was censored once and about one year ago, they've switched to this new site. Now this one is censored too.
- www.HerLandMag.com is also a website of a feminist group which is censored previousely. After their first site (www.IFTribune.com, a women news portal) was blocked, they've started this new site which is a weekly magazine.
- www.ParastooD.com is another famous weblogger in Iran. She is a feminist journalist. Her weblog is one of the most famous weblogs in Iran.
In one hand I have to say "I don't know why these site are blocked" but in the other hand I have to say "It is obvious why Ahmadinejad filters these sites". None of these sites ever wrote about violence or sexual contents. They were defending womens rights and asking for equal rights. These websites were among main websites who reflects todays events. Today is 12 June and all women groups and activist are going to demonstrate in streets demanding equal rights. Government have been called most of them and announced them "If you participate, we'll arrest you!" or "If this demonstration takes place, we'll shut down your organazation". This is ridiculus but is REAL.
Three months ago, police attacked women in 8th of march and beat them with battons. I wish health and security for every woman participating in this demonstration !
p.s. Around six months ago, ahmadi jenad announced that nobody is allowed to promote feministic, liberalistic and nihilistic ideas in Iran !
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