Shutting down Iranian government websites is cyberwarfare

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by sweetdreams • 17 years ago

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madair2• 17 years ago

I urge readers to consider the importance of civil disobedience in the face of overwhelming abuses of power by the Iranian government. I'm not advocating any one particular method, but his arguments are weak. Abusers of freedom may cry foul, but that doesn't make it so.

zcrar706• 17 years ago

What makes it right for you to take down an Iranian government website, but wrong for someone in Iran to take down a US government website, or for someone in China to take down the Dalai Lama's website?

sweetdreams• 17 years ago

I agree, and I also think that for something to be legitimate civil disobedience, you have to at least be a member of the civil society that you're disobeying. While there might be some westerners of Iranian descent involved in the denial of service attacks, most of the people involved probably are not directly connected to Iranian society.

DanielBMarkham4• 17 years ago

Because when you attack something, you are attacking the people that hold it?

In the United States, every citizen owns part of every government website, so to attack one is to attack us all.

In a sham government, it's just some assholes who pretend to represent the people that own the buildings and websites, and they do so by use of force. To attack those websites is to attack those people, and some people deserved to be attacked.

I have no obligation to view the legitimate property of a democracy in the same way as a bunch of thugs ruling a country by force of arms. They are not equivalent.

I'm not advocating one way or another -- in fact, I'm opposed in this instance. But your question deserved an answer. And it didn't look like you were able to come up with one.

Shutting down Iranian government websites is cyberwarfare

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