یک نامه انگلیسی نوشتم (کپی آن در وبلاگ انگلیسیام و نیز در وبسایت ایرانیان) به یکسری از دوستانم با عنوان «این خطر همهی ما را تهدید میکند» دربارهی اینکه خفه کردن مخالف، قبل از حکم دادگاه و به زور ارعاب و پول و وکیل، شتری است که در خانهی همهی خواهید خوابید.
اگر دوست داشتید آن را برای دوستانتان فوروارد کنید یا در وبلاگتان بگذارید:
Dear friends,
While everyone is on holidays, a new blow to online free speech has taken place and I would like to share it with you and ask for help.
Last Friday, I was kicked out of my hosting company (Florida-based Hosting Matters), as a result of a legal notice sent by Mehdi Khalaji, an Iranian fellow at a neo-conservative think-tank (Washington Institute for the Near East Policy with Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and James Woolsey on its advisory board).
Mhedi Khalaji's lawyer has sent a notice to my hosting company and also my domain registrar, Go Daddy, asking them to a) remove any 'defamatory' material about him, b) make me publish an apology, and c) pay $10,000 for the claimed damages
The lawyers claim are based on a mistranslation of a post I had written a few months ago about Khalaji and his support for a disgusting anti-Iranian campaign (http://www.afpc.org/IFI/iranfreedom.shtml) at another neo-conservative think-tank (American Foreign Policy Council) and his counsel to a think-tank with a clear agenda to overthrow the Iranian government by an economic warfare or a military attack.
The hosting company, clearly intimidated, asked me (documented below) to remove that specific post and also any material related to Mehdi Khalaji, since they didn't have enough resources to figure if they were actually defamatory or not.
I removed the mentioned post, but resisted against such strange request to remove anything I had written, mentioning Mehdi Khalaji.
Then last Friday, I noticed that the hosting company had actually removed, from my web serve and even my blogging software's database, any post where Mehdi Khalaji was named in English.
After threatening me not to disclose what the hosting company did, and after a few email exchanges, they terminated my account.
I have now migrated to a new hosting company, outside the United States, still struggling to get my numerous domain names, databases and online applications back and running.
This is a threat to all of us who write anything online these days. If someone could silence whatever he or she didn't like, even before a court order and based on intimidating hosting and domain registrar companies and based on mistranslated material, we would all going to be in big trouble soon.
It's all quite ironic that the way I am treated in the United States (by being kicked out of my servers) is worse than that in the Islamic Republic of Iran (by filtering my blog and forcing me to sign apology when I was last in Tehran). Ever more ironic is that a blog I was editing to cover internet censorship in Iran has also been shut down.
Please feel free to blog this and spread the word any way you can. I'll keep you post about the new developments by email, and as well on my temporary blog on blogspot (http://hodertempblog.blogspot.com).
Here are the supporting documents:
1) The initial legal notice from Khalaji's lawyer:
http://hoder.com/weblog/images/khalajithreat.pdf
2) Email exchange with the hosting company led to termination of my accounts:
http://hodertemp.blogspot.com/2007/08/accounts-and-billing-hosting-matters.html
3) My trouble with Islamic Republic of Iran's authorities:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2006/03/70522
Warm regards,
8 comments:
دنیادنیای زور و گردن کلفتی است. آمریکا قدرت دارد و زورگویی می کند. جمهوری اسلامی هم در محدوده داخلی همان کار را می کند. حال کسی که از این عمل جمهوری اسلامی دفاع می کند حق ندارد در مقیاس بزرگتر از همان عمل آمریکا ناراحت باشد. امیدوارم که منظورم روشن باشد.
تو خودت قبلا سایتی که در مورد سانسور اینترنت درست کرده بودی سرخود بستی و حتی آرشیوش رو هم برداشتی که زحمت های من و مترجم دیگه ای که کمک کرده بود کشک پشم شه. حالا چی چی رو دیگه می گه بستن؟ همون سایتی که الان یک صفحه بیشتر نداره و اون هم نامه تو هست؟
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:gS3SzMd9gHkJ:stop.censoring.us/+stop+censoring+us&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
آرشیو stop censoring us هیچوقت پاک نشده و الان هم اگر گوگل کنی هنوز تمام آرشیوش رو نشون میده.
فقط الان با وضعیت تازه باید فایلهاش رو منتقل کنم روی سرور تازه که وقت میگیره و من یه نفر آدم بیشتر نیستم که هم باید به دروغههای آدمهای عقیدهای آمریکانشینی مثل تو جواب بدم و هم هزار تا کار دیگه بکنم.
Hello Hoder, I followed Niki's link here. It sounds like your former hosting company has cost you dearly in terms of your time to fix what they have done! I thought there was something called free speech in my country. Every day, people like Rush Limbaugh defame the hell out of whomever they disagree with and nothing has been done to shut him up (oh, how I wish someone would!). So, I'm just baffled that your hosting company has behaved this way! I hope you sue them! Whatever course you decide to take, I wish you good luck!
یعنی انکار می کنی که اون سایت رو خودت بستی و نامه بسته شدنش رو گذاشتی اونجا؟ و لینک به آرشیو هاش رو برداشتی؟!
حسین جان عزیز بابا آخه تو چرا یهو اینقد کس خل شدی عزیزم؟ دست بردار زودتر ورژن عوض کن گاییدی مارو
این بستن وبسایتت هم هیچ ربطی به آزادی بیان نداره. هوستت یه کمپانی خصوصیه از ترس کونش زده کاسه کوزت رو ریخته بیرون دیگه. کار غیر قانونی که نکرده که. صد دفعه هم که بهت هشدار داده. دیگه اینقده ننه من قریبم نداره که.
باریکلا پسر خوب حالا بس کن دیگه دست از این کس خل بازیات بردار. تو حیفی نکن اینجوری
Good job writing the English version. I sent it to several English speakers...
سلام حسین،
من امیر هستم. خوشحالم که بالاخره برگشتی و اینبار همین تو بلاگر مینویسی، دیگه کسی نمیتونه بهت فشار بیاره. ایم میهن فروشان را هم ولشان کن. کی برای حرف اینها تره خرد میکند.
من از مخالفان سرسخت تو بودم ولی از وقتی که از راه اشتباهت برگشتی از همراهان توام. وطن ما با همه مشکلاتش وطن است و هر کس (خودی و ناخودی) که به آن از پشت خنجر بزند دشمن ما و ایران ماست.
موفق باشی
دوستت
امیر حسین
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