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Democracy Now Video Reporting on Iran’s European Aided Internet Monitoring Capabilities

By CircleID Reporter
  • June 24, 2009, 10:22 pm PDT
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Democracy Now has a video discussion on the recent reports about telecoms in Europe aiding the Iranian government develop highly sophisticated Internet censorship mechanisms or deep packet inspection.

The WSJ recently reported that the Iranian monitoring capabilities where “at least in part [provided] by a joint venture of Siemens AG, the German conglomerate, and Nokia Corp., the Finish cellphone compnay, in second half of 2008.” (also see previous report: Iran’s Internet Censorship Most Sophisticated in the World)

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