The Wikipedia Articles Iran's Government Doesn't Want People to See

To better understand how the Iranian government censors the Internet at large, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School decided it was best to look at how the Islamist regime controls one of the Internet's most popular sites: Wikipedia.

Despite the recent election of a reform-minded president, those studying Persian-language Wikipedia through Iranian proxy servers found the government still uses heavy-handed censorship tactics to keep citizens from accessing articles on everything from political assassinations to homosexuality to Emma Watson

"Understanding what Iranian censors block on the Internet helps demonstrate what information officials find most objectionable as well as the extent to which Iran's Internet censorship policies may violate international law," write the study's authors, Collin Anderson and Nima Nazeri. "Wikipedia, the popular open-source online encyclopedia, provides a useful place to uncover the types of online content forbidden in Iran." Read more...