Iran's filtering System

I wanted to look up one of the most suppressed countries that Western Societies feel liberties are not allowed, so i looked up Iran. It used to be a free internet in Iran but with the allowance of free speech made the government look bad and passed laws to hinder this concept of free speech. Now one of the major items that are censored through the internet in Iran is religion. It is illegal to speak out against the Islamic religion and nothing about atheism is allowed.  Iran government understands that the internet should be a tool of growth in their society but  Iran has censored ten million Web sites thus far and about 1,000 sites are blocked every month.

all of this falls under the Bill of Cyber Crimes’ Sanctions on October 12, 2006. This bill umbrellas all forms of electronic writings and graphics and anything that has to do with cyberspace. But before this law was the 2000 Press Law, which meant that anyone with a website or even blog had to register for the sight and get a license to continue it. Violation of such laws or braking any of the rules the government has provided one can be charged with the death penalty, imprisonment up to five years, or or seventy-four lashes (especially if it has to do with "propaganda" against the religion and government)

the first case in Iran to fall under these strict rules after 2006, was  Baztab.com. "According to a government official, Baztab not only failed to apply for a license, but it also violated the regulations by disclosing state secrets and other confidential military information, insulting government officials, and publishing false news. (internet filtering)" however, for some reason the courts did not press charges and is lucky to be a running site still. But now any networking sites that have anything to do with pornography, relieving clothing, against government or government officials, arsi-language news sites, opposition political sites, and many more. Even sites like MySpace and Photo sharing websites are band.