{"id":15122,"date":"2014-09-01T11:57:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T11:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=15122"},"modified":"2014-09-01T11:57:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T11:57:32","slug":"keeping-the-sheeple-dumb-and-under-the-thumb-is-a-global-control-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/01\/keeping-the-sheeple-dumb-and-under-the-thumb-is-a-global-control-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping the sheeple dumb and under the thumb is a global control strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A Grand Ayatollah in Iran has determined that access to high-speed and 3G Internet is \u201cagainst Sharia\u201d and \u201cagainst moral standards.\u201d In answer to a question published on his website, Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, one of the country\u2019s highest clerical authorities, issued a fatwa, stating \u201cAll third generation [3G] and high-speed internet services, prior to realization of the required conditions for the National Information Network [Iran\u2019s government-controlled and censored Internet which is under development], is against Sharia and against moral and human standards.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Internet access has been an ongoing struggle between Iran\u2019s hardliners, who retain key bases of power in the judicial, intelligence and security branches of government and wish to maintain strict censorship and control over all information, and the 42 million Iranians\u2014some 55% of the population\u2014who use the Internet. Internet speed is a critical weapon in this battle, as the authorities frequently slow the speed of the Internet as a means to render it effectively useless, thereby depriving the citizenry of the online access it needs for professional, educational, and commercial use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Grand Ayatollah in Iran has determined that access to high-speed and 3G Internet is \u201cagainst Sharia\u201d and \u201cagainst moral standards.\u201d In answer to a question published on his website, Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, one of the country\u2019s highest clerical authorities, issued a fatwa, stating \u201cAll third generation [3G] and high-speed internet services, prior&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/01\/keeping-the-sheeple-dumb-and-under-the-thumb-is-a-global-control-strategy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Keeping the sheeple dumb and under the thumb is a global control strategy&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-15122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-shrill"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-3VU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15123,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15122\/revisions\/15123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}