Iran Plans To Filter Immoral SMS And MMS Transmissions
from the good-luck-with-that dept
Iran’s Telecommunications Ministry has now announced that it plans to start filtering out any immoral video and audio messages sent via mobile phones. Of course, the key sentence in the article is: “It did not give details of the techniques it would use to filter such messages, when it would start or how it would define “immoral” messages.” It’s one of those things that may sound nice to overly paternalistic governments, but is impossible to accomplish in real life. Do they plan to have people actually reviewing every text and video message before it gets sent? That clearly will never work (or, will simply guarantee that the messaging becomes close to useless). Or, more likely, they’ll buy some crappy filtering software to try to pick up on “naughty” words, which won’t work very well and will probably just cause more problems than it solves (assuming you believe immoral messages are a problem in the first place). It’s always amusing to see governments make claims like this when it’s simply impossible for them to actually achieve what they claim.
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baba ina hamashoon divoonan
hamineshon kam monde ke sms haroham filter konan
mardom hich azadii nadaran
what?
i think this comments allready been filtered .. didnt understand a word …
pathetic!!
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Sounds to me like the perfect opportunity to subvert the Iranian Powers-that-be….
Unless they have an isolated cellular network, with state sponsored access, (not), they’re blowing smoke up the virtual digital hijab/burka of the modern islamic world.
Is the world ready for a digital extention of the Sharia Law?
…only when you are able to kiss my digital ass.
Is this...?
Would this be considered immoral?
Immorality test here…
RE: IS this...?
PS: The link in my comment above (the immorality test) is NSFW.
Sophocles said
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Re: Sophocles said
Has anyone considered that maybe this is a bluff? Perhaps they made the announcement in hopes that just warning that they would be surveilling the content would decrease people sending it? I’m in no way an expert on Iranian culture, but if your combined govt/religious leadership is denouncing it, a bluff may be all you need for a large swath of the population.
Maybe they’ll throw in a generic word-filter, just to add a touch of realism.
IS this...?
is that an Iranian parliamentary procedure? …figures.
when 9 yr. old girl can be married to an adult man, what can you expect?
Sick F*cks.
badwords?
Perhaps they will keep a badwords list like an IRCD.
/msg smsserv badwords add *USA*
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I wonder if this is the reason they want nuclear power plants, to power a giant sms filter.
I wonder if this is the reason they want nuclear power plants, to power a giant sms filter.
time to state the obvious...
…since no one but me seems to have noticed.
Has no one yet realized that the government is basically looking for a way to sensor political unrest? Considering this is almost certainly the intended goal (or at the very least the end result) it is likely they would spare no effort or cost to achieve it to the best level possible. Over the counter software is not bloody likely for an application on which their government’s stability could one day hinge.
Also, word filters are not hard to implement. With negligible coding experience and very little effort it was possible to hack a feature like this into the production ircd hosting a few hundred users that works extremely well and NEVER produces false positives. With a reasonably competent coder and some time and money behind it, it is possible to have reasonably reliable coding for entire word patterns.
As for problems, blocking a few hundred legit text messages per week is no big deal when your trying to control the minds of your population.
let ’em try then DDoS their SMS system just for fun. send them stuff like “let’s go have a drink” or “I like Bush… a lot” pardon the pun
of course
Of course its just to read what people are saying. Sure, the guise of a thecratic government would give them the ability to claim moral filtering – but its undoubtably a way to monitor what is being said in their country – as well as who is saying it. Im surprised the US hasn’t found a way to weasle this into homeland security yet.
actually i can see this working, using some sort of bayesian methods, it would at first let everything through, some messages are reviewed by hand, and marked ‘go-nogo’ as a training set..
it gets better over time, never perfect but maybe close enough.
in effect you have a spam filter where instead of adverts being blocked its stuff ‘someone’ doesn’t like, probably very broadly defined. but it would work *if*
1, its left running for a while to train it, no instant results
2, you don’t mind it not being perfect.
1337
All the Iranians will have to do to swear on SMS mesages is to use 13375?3@|
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