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| Iranian police remains puzzled over pr0no images on city billboard |
| 2007-12-24 |
| Iranian police on Sunday were still puzzled over pr0nographic images broadcast on an LCD billboard in downtown Karaj, 30 kilometres west of Tehran, ISNA news agency reported. The images were shown for several seconds last week on the billboard - usually reserved for state-authorized advertisements - in Azadesgan Square in Karaj, causing surprise among the people in the square at that time. Any heart attacks? Pr0nography is an absolute taboo issue in Islamic Iran where any form of contact between men and women in films and TV series is censored. Authorities are probably worried everyone will go blind if they see pr0n. Well, I've got news for them. There are other things that can make them go blind, too. Six of one or a half dozen of the other. In the first phase, an unidentified number of men, believed to be employed by the advertising company had been arrested but later on released after no evidence could be found on their computers, Tehran police chief General Reza Zarei said. Apparently they haven't checked Fred's computer yet. But after the incident, filmed with mobile devices by some Karaj citizens, the images were widely distributed via the Internet, and the same people were once again arrested and their office sealed, the police chief added. Sort of the electronic version of the brave "police" in a muslim country repeatedly beating the defenseless woman who is next to a protest because she can't fight back. However, it still remains unclear to the police and judiciary how the pr0nographic images got onto the billboard. There are speculations that somebody played a trick on the advertising company by putting the pictures on the company computer. Looks like it's going to take a lengthy investigation complete with months or even (horrors!) years of surfing the web to hopefully find where these pix originated from. No stone left unturned. No effort is to great to maintain our religious Making and distributing pr0nographic materials is considered as a crime in Iran and offenders face heavy cash fines, prison terms and even the death sentence if the material is produced without the knowledge of those involved. I'd like to see death sentences handed out when someone is filmed without their permission, too. The police on Sunday also started a new wave of raids on video shops in Tehran to confiscate illegal DVDs - unauthorized and uncensored Western films sold on the black market at prices between 1 and 2 dollars. Gotta keep up appearances after all! Can't say they don't do it where I come from. The police raids however have not had any tangible long-term effects so far as just a few days after the raids the DVDs can easily be obtained in the market again. Now that's what I call a flexible marketplace! |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #3 Where are all the ace hackers? You guys start dumping pr0n on Iranian public computerized billboards and tv broadcasts and I'll forgive all the spam, and maybe even a little bit of spyware. C'mon, get hackin! |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-12-24 11:05 |
| #2 It's Bush's Fault! |
| Posted by: doc 2007-12-24 10:02 |
| #1 Mullah on mullah action? |
| Posted by: ed 2007-12-24 09:52 |
