An ugly ISP

I read today that Pars Online is the first Iranian ISP to get permission of selling ADSL internet subscriptions inside Iran (now, all of ordinary people connected to internet in their homes use dial-up services. I may write more about internet usage in Iran in my future posts).

You know, Pars Online was the ISP to censure internet content in Iran even before ICT Ministry declared official filtering and banning of some websites. All web surfers in Iran hate Pars Online for its pro-government policies to filter websites. Even this ugly ISP had filtered weblogs created with blogger or persianblog, and some other blogs like Editor: Myself, for several weeks without making any explanations or any excuses to their subscribers.

Thus, the recent advantage to this ISP seems to be a result of going with the steps of hardliner mullahs. (Hardliner mullahs do differ from reformist mullahs, but eventually all of them are mullah and I do believe mullahs MUST NOT be leaders and decision-makers of a country. Politics must get completely separated from religion, or even any other ideology.)