Immoral Mobile Messages To Be Filtered In Iran

April 30, 2007 – 3:25 pm

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Fundamentalist Islamic Theologians are a wacky bunch, always coming up with news ways to thwart the immoral behavior of the populace, so it’s no surprise to learn about a new initiative coming out of that bastion of personal freedom, Iran. In Iran, censorship is already used frequently, so it’s not a great surprise to learn about more penalties coming for “immoral” mobile messages.

Iran’s Telecommunications Ministry will start filtering “immoral” video and audio messages sent via mobile phones, state television reported on Saturday.

The Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, a body set up after Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, has instructed the ministry to buy the equipment needed to prevent any misuse of Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), it said.

MMS allows users to send multimedia messages that include images, video and audio.

” … in order to prevent possible misuse of MMS, immoral actions and social problems, the Telecommunications Ministry will filter immoral MMS,” the television said.

The only rub, of course, is that they aren’t clear about exactly what “immoral” messages look like. So the unfortunate people will just have to find out when they do something wrong.

Resource: Reuters

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