MetalStorm.net - Blocked In Iran
So... apparently MetalStorm.net has been blocked by Iranian authorities. As of Sunday, MS has been "filtered" and is no longer accessible in Iran. Yup, Metal Storm is officially too metal for Iran. Several of our Iranian users have reported though that, next to bypass software, the site is still available through https://www.metalstorm.net.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has been filtering social network sites, like MySpace, Facebook, Last.fm, Twitter, Urkat for years now. But since last month authorities have started filtering blogs and websites related to Metal music. The infamous Metal Archives were the first to go down. But also most of the Persian language metal forums and blogs got filtered. Even the official Metallica website had to bite the dust.
Click the thumbnail to see a screenshot of how MS currently looks like in Iran. The text reads as follows: "In the name of Allah the Merciful, the Beneficent. According to internet violence rules, access to this website is denied."
When The Guardian reported about the intensified censorship following the commotion after the 2009 elections, the newspaper wrote that "internet censorship is both routine and highly developed in the Islamic Republic." Iran uses what the OpenNet Initiative calls "one of the most extensive technical filtering systems in the world", as all internet providers are required to go through state-controlled gateways.
According to Wikipedia - who have a surprisingly thorough article about internet censorship in Iran - every ISP must be approved by both the Telecommunication Company of Iran (TCI) and the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, and must implement content-control software for websites and e-mail. ISP's face heavy penalties if they do not comply with the government filter lists.
In 2008, Iran has blocked access to more than five million Internet sites, whose content is mostly perceived as immoral and anti-social. In recent years, Internet service providers have been told to block access to political, human rights and women's sites and weblogs expressing dissent or deemed to be pornographic and anti-Islamic. The ban has also targeted such popular social networking sites as Facebook and YouTube, as well as news sites.
So yeah... Hail Satam, y'all!
[Also thanks to [user_id]1304[/user_id] for the information]
The Islamic Republic of Iran has been filtering social network sites, like MySpace, Facebook, Last.fm, Twitter, Urkat for years now. But since last month authorities have started filtering blogs and websites related to Metal music. The infamous Metal Archives were the first to go down. But also most of the Persian language metal forums and blogs got filtered. Even the official Metallica website had to bite the dust.
Click the thumbnail to see a screenshot of how MS currently looks like in Iran. The text reads as follows: "In the name of Allah the Merciful, the Beneficent. According to internet violence rules, access to this website is denied."
When The Guardian reported about the intensified censorship following the commotion after the 2009 elections, the newspaper wrote that "internet censorship is both routine and highly developed in the Islamic Republic." Iran uses what the OpenNet Initiative calls "one of the most extensive technical filtering systems in the world", as all internet providers are required to go through state-controlled gateways.
According to Wikipedia - who have a surprisingly thorough article about internet censorship in Iran - every ISP must be approved by both the Telecommunication Company of Iran (TCI) and the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, and must implement content-control software for websites and e-mail. ISP's face heavy penalties if they do not comply with the government filter lists.
In 2008, Iran has blocked access to more than five million Internet sites, whose content is mostly perceived as immoral and anti-social. In recent years, Internet service providers have been told to block access to political, human rights and women's sites and weblogs expressing dissent or deemed to be pornographic and anti-Islamic. The ban has also targeted such popular social networking sites as Facebook and YouTube, as well as news sites.
So yeah... Hail Satam, y'all!
[Also thanks to [user_id]1304[/user_id] for the information]
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Written by Got Mayhem? on 07.07.2010 at 00:21 Best mockeries i have seen for sometime, Love Ya Work!:banger2:
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| BudDa Elite Posts: 887  |
This is no way to live. Guess theres alot I don't know about the Islamic faith but still..This is no way to live..
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| Dangerboner Lactation Cnslt Posts: 7262  |
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| INÆRIS Posts: 204  |
Most people who don't appreciate all the great metal this world has to offer share a trait: they're brutally closed minded. It's a shame.
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| corrupt With a lowercase c Admin Posts: 3542  |
Written by BudDa on 07.07.2010 at 08:21 Don't generalize this to the islamic faith. There's always a difference between faith, religion and individuals who use either in their own interest. I wonder if that's only DNS bans like they tried to enforce on kiddie porn in Germany or if they really cut the routes in Iran. In the former case, you could think of making Metalstorm appear instead of Ivan's Design when the server gets requests from Iranian IPs with no domain in the header. But I do find it funny that the user who posted the screenshot obviously uses TOR to surf the internet. The surprising thing is that Iran doesn't ban it's use too. Otherwise the whole idea of internet censorship falls apart anyway.
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| BudDa Elite Posts: 887 |
Written by corrupt on 07.07.2010 at 09:14 So this has nothing at all to do with their faith or religion(whats the difference, btw?!)
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Written by Got Mayhem? on 07.07.2010 at 00:21 I think "http://gaymensuck.com" is in there too. When I first started reading "In the name of Allah the Merciful..." I Thryce was making a joke. Then I continued. I sware that  this face describes my reaction exactly. (Start where it's laughing, then end before it loops.)
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| Dark Blood The Avenger Posts: 1435  |
Written by wormwood on 07.07.2010 at 01:17 So true. Its hard to believe that in the 21th century there are still cultures with such a closed mind. All in the name of their god, and seems people can't even choose what to believe in... How did it come to this? Might as well ban internet in Iran. Poor guys, almost looks like they're living in a cave.
---- It is humanity who must pay homage to the greatness of the Universe... not the Universe to the human narcissism. 
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| DoomGuard Posts: 368  |
We deserved it, i mean come on, we got bands like Bullet For My Valentine and As I Lay Dying coming onto the site, and Iran was just tired of all the false metal, so they decided to block it. I praise Iran for taking the necessary steps against all those that play false metal, they are the tr00-est of the tr00. I mean come on guys we have Unearth as a band here, Grand Ayatollah Ali Kamehameha is just tired of us straying from the tr00 metal. Let us repent guys...or at least take a step back...and look at what we've become.... (disclaimer: extreeeeeeeeeeeeme sarcasm here...)
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| Fallen'Angel Posts: 163  |
They probably have death penalty for people who listen to metal or dont brush their teeth ..
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| Angelic Storm Melodious Posts: 6675  |
Meh, Im not surprised by this at all. Organised religion just sucks.
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| Chidder Posts: 189  |
"In the name of Allah the Merciful, the Beneficent" YOU SHALL NOT PASS  Could not resist. It's hard to be metalhead in Iran though.
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| Black_Handed A village idiot Posts: 386  |
The moon indeed froze. what about proxies? can you get through easily using them? do you have any availible?
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| Dark Cornatus Powerslave Elite Posts: 4330  |
I wish everyone out there would wake up to religion and see how it controls their mind. There is faith, and there is logic, it;s not hard to choose. Everyone should have the right to access what they want regardless of what they believe or don;t believe.
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Written by Dangerboner on 07.07.2010 at 08:36 Absolutely. You can be jailed for attempting to smuggle magazines into the country. If you want to order travel brochures from abroad into country under Sharia law, you have to ask the travel agents to black out any pictures of women in bikinis (you're allowed show their hands and face, by the grace of Allah). To put things into perspective, though, you have to realise that this is a country that reserves a place in the CABINET for the messiah (Mahdi). It's like imaginary tea parties young girls may act out, only with the tea and cakes replaced by misogyny and antisemitism. And censorship.
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| corrupt With a lowercase c Admin Posts: 3542 |
Written by BudDa on 07.07.2010 at 10:14 Obviously, even without having read it, the Qur'an doesn't say anything about Metal or the Internet. Faith is what each man has to his own. Religion is when people who share beliefs group together and organize. What the Iranian government does, however, is censorship, control, suppression, whatever you want to call it. Granted they use religion as a pretext. But what this is really about is keeping people ignorant. Preventing them from learning a critical way of thinking and developing a mind of their own. Pretty much what christianity has done to europe for >1500 years. Only in today's world the people aren't as simple-minded as in the middle ages. The internet gives them access to thoughts and culture of a relatively free and critical world. So any country trying to suppress it's people would start to try and censor it. Metal falls more in the category of alien culture than free thinking (even if some people here would claim otherwise), but it's not a new concept, even for people in the western world to condemn cultural development beyond individual understanding.
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| Ziom Posts: 640 |
You evil islamophobes  . Well, music is haram after all (if it's accompanied by words or something like that), the Prophet didn't like it too much. Good thing is, they'll eventually ban Bieber too .
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| Behdaad DEAD Posts: 206  |
Hi guys. I'm from Iran and I'm accessing Metal Storm via https. Thank you all for your sympathy. I appreciate that. Written by omjaimes on 07.07.2010 at 05:00 Haha! Islam is in opposition with metal! Metal supports free thinking and to choose what you want and what to believe in, but Islam does not allow you to choose! You SHOULD believe in God and Mohammad, otherwise you are going straight to hell! BTW, listening to metal music is against the rules of Islam! Funny, isn't it?! Written by Anibx on 07.07.2010 at 05:34 Well, some of the rules and laws are against humanity! Those must not be followed. Like denying access to Metal websites! Written by Fallen'Angel on 07.07.2010 at 11:33 Well, like I said, you will be jailed if you listen to metal music or play metal music! Sooner or later, there will be death penalty for that. Because whoever listens to metal is considered as "Satanist" and being satanist in Iran faces death penalty. That's for sure. After all, accessing to a lot of Persian (Farsi) metal sites such as "Bia2Metal.com" is denied. That's it... Again, I thank you all as a member of Iranian metalheads. Always be METAL! (That's my motto!) 
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| siavash_eddie Posts: 10  |
Fuck them! .... im from iran! .... we dont care filtering anymore!... we use proxies and antifilter programs! ...
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| rodion-z Posts: 9  |
Some "free minded" degenerates here make my day! "Yeah, fuck religion and fuck the damn intolerant muslims! And fuck religion!" I believe you would like religious sites to be banned, wouldn't you?)
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