More than 10,000 sites are banned in Iran, according to reports.
But when questioned by BBC News Online over this figure, President Khatami insisted the number was much smaller - just 240 - and that the authorities were not blocking pro-reform sites.
"Our youth and adolescents during high school, and university, are using weblogs very extensively. Access for youth to the internet is very satisfactory."
President Mohammad Khatami
via the BBC
I thought this was an interesting article - I've noticed many posts on sites like Fotopages from Iranian users. There is 105 users of the site that specify they are Iranian - Canada posts 129 users - similar to Singapore (141) and the UK (117)
Interesting also to note that after english and french, more weblogs were written in persian than any other language...
To try and censure each site individually (blogs, fotopages)will continue to prove more and more difficult.
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