Nimeye Gomshodeh - The lost half

Part One - Information and Mis-information 

'Tavana bovad har ke dana bovad' a famous verse by Ferdowsi on the first page of our school books in Iran. Translated by Francis Bacon as 'knowledge is power'.

Iran Top Judge (Shahroudi) decreed today that joining any web-based society and/or satellite gathering whose objective is to undermine the country's national security is illegal in line with Islamic Penal Codes 498-502 and punishable by prison terms of 2-10 years. 

The prelude to this decree is twofold:

1. The Islamic regime's public attack on international media in particular BBC Persian Service, Voiceof America (V.O.A) Persia, Radio Farda (and many independent media based outside Iran) that are broadcasting effective news through satellites in the absence of all types of unbiased reportage from within Iran due to full censorship.

2.  The role that web 2.0 and social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and DIY media like YouTube are playing when every Iranian citizen is turning into a reporter informing public opinion of what is actually happening in streets in Tehran and other cities in Iran.

So now virtual gathering of 2 or more people (i.e. membership of such supposedly benign websites as Twitter or Facebook) is a punishable crime.  This decree is supposed to open the hands of the judicial authorities to use the force of 'law' against the peaceful protestors or dissidents who have been illegally imprisoned en-masse and are currently being selectively tortured in the dungeons of the Islamic regime to repent or confess to 'made-up' crimes.

Part Two - Hackers of the World Unite

The aim of the coup leaders who are planning to establish a naked dictatorship under the guise of a pure Mohamaddian Islamic Rule in Iran is clear. Their campaign of mis-information is not working and there are just too many citizen journalists who are using their mobiles and internet to upload messages and images that throw the deceitful lies of Khamenei-Ahmadinejad cronies back into their own faces.  They know that their absolute rule is not achievable unless they absolutely stop free flow of information between the people in Iran and the outlookers that sympathise for their quest for democracy.

Enter Cyberwar being played by both sides of the fence. Iran's intelligence ministry's campaign of misinformation and the blocking of the free flow of #iranelection protest information is being countered by pro-democracy and freedom loving hackers.  A group formed under //www.nedanet.org say in their webiste:

"This is the resource page for NedaNet, a network of hackers formed to support the democratic revolution in Iran. Our mission is to help the Iranian people by setting up networks of proxy severs, anonymizers, and any other appropriate technologies that can enable them to communicate and organize — a network beyond the censorship or control of the Iranian regime.

NedaNet doesn't have leaders or a manifesto or even much in the way of organization. We're not affiliated with any nation or religion. We're just computer hackers and computer users from all over the planet doing what we can to help the Iranian people in their struggle for freedom."

Good job guys.  Let there be light.  The youth and freedom loving people of Iran need and appreciate your support.

Did Karl Marx ever dream of Hackers rather than Workers leading the world revolution for human emancipation?!