Iran says state-linked sites seized by US, reasons unclear

Peacehead

Active Member
And as an American I don’t support any attacks against americans. As far as taking websites down for propoganda I feel like that’s a losing battle and we are guilty of the same in our own media, as well as China and many other nations.
 

hanimmal

Well-Known Member
Not a troll at all, wasn’t even going to post but after reading some of the insults thrown at a political party that many Americans identify with I felt like someone had to say something. Seemed like a whole lot of hatred and generalizing, peace.
Trolls are going to troll.

I stick to the rule of thumb that if you don't know someone in real life, chances are they are trolling you. That was the whole reason for the ignore feature thing, if you see something offensive to you, hit that ignore button, because it might be there to get you to respond how you did.

Best of luck.

And as an American I don’t support any attacks against americans.


As far as taking websites down for propoganda I feel like that’s a losing battle and we are guilty of the same in our own media, as well as China and many other nations.
It depends what you mean by 'media'. Technically you are 'media' when you posted here.

News organizations though have laws that they have to follow. There is a reason that talking heads like Tucker have to argue in court that they are 'entertainment' and not news so they can say anything they want and mislead their viewers.

And you are right unfortunately the Republican party has used everything from Koch funded universities feeding propaganda troll professors to congressional hearings so that they can get the bullshit cherry picked soundbites to spread all around the internet on their 'new-esque' websites like "OANN" and then click bait the big lies all around the internet on any forum like this and then troll the people with videos and whatnot using all of this to drive them insane.

As for the Democrats doing this, I call bullshit. There is defiantly a attack from 'left-trolls' but they are the same paid trolls that the Republicans/Russian military are paying to make it look like the left is batshit.

Every newsworthy event from every angle on every platform is being used to spam us all into not being able to talk to one another. And thanks to Trump, who got the RNC data on all of us that was given to the Russian military to attack us all down to the gerrymandered districts we live in nudging us to vote the way that they want using sophisticated data analysis to pinpoint the exact propaganda to spam us with to get the biggest impact.

Anyways.

Welcome to the site! I hope you stick around.
 

mooray

Well-Known Member
Wow just wow Dems May dominate the news and social media but 70 million Americans are still republicans and aren’t going to change their mind because you decided to go at their neck or because you look down on them or think you are better. I am glad to get a glimpse into the thought process. Hopefully for your sake we can just ban republicans - and won’t have to worry about a republican getting elected again but I just don’t see it.
Your reply is funny. Republicans tend to be pretty narcissistic, which causes them to feel incredibly imposed upon when they hear other people's thoughts, when those thoughts don't align with their own. For example, I posted my comments in reply to yours and had zero intention that they would change your mind, or anyone's, hadn't even crossed my mind one bit. Nor would I have thought your post was trying to change my mind. But, because you're so infatuated with yourself, you think everything out in the world has something to do with you, and you allow someone else's comments to impose so heavily upon yourself, that it's exactly what you assumed was happening. Nope. This is just want it looks like when other people exercise their rights.
 

Peacehead

Active Member
Your reply is funny. Republicans tend to be pretty narcissistic, which causes them to feel incredibly imposed upon when they hear other people's thoughts, when those thoughts don't align with their own. For example, I posted my comments in reply to yours and had zero intention that they would change your mind, or anyone's, hadn't even crossed my mind one bit. Nor would I have thought your post was trying to change my mind. But, because you're so infatuated with yourself, you think everything out in the world has something to do with you, and you allow someone else's comments to impose so heavily upon yourself, that it's exactly what you assumed was happening. Nope. This is just want it looks like when other people exercise their rights.
Ok this is America so I respect your rights but you’re coming across as arrogant, judgemental and prejudice. Just thought someone should point it out. Not going to bother on here anymore but someone had to stand up to all of the nonsense. Thanks for the insight.
 

schuylaar

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/iran-says-state-linked-sites-seized-by-us-reasons-unclear/2021/06/22/e84fa400-d385-11eb-b39f-05a2d776b1f4_story.html
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran said Tuesday that several state-linked news websites have been seized by the U.S. government under unclear circumstances.

While there was no immediate acknowledgement of the seizures from American authorities, they come amid the wider heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran over Tehran’s now-tattered nuclear deal with world powers.

The Islamic Republic’s president-elect, judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi, staked out a hard-line position Monday in his first news conference since his election victory.
He said he would would not meet with President Joe Biden and ruled out any further negotiations with the West over Tehran’s ballistic missile program and support for regional militias.

Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency identified a series of websites taken offline, saying they were seized by the Department of Justice.

The Iranian state-linked websites that abruptly went offline with what appeared to be U.S. seizure notices include state television’s English-language arm Press TV, as well as the Yemeni Houthi rebels’ Al-Masirah satellite news channel and Iranian state TV’s Arabic-language channel, Al-Alam.

The site for the Houthi-run Al-Masirah satellite news channel acknowledged its website’s seizure by the FBI. In a statement, the group said the site’s closure had come without prior notice but that the channel would continue in its mission of “confronting the American and Israeli acts of piracy against our nation, by any means.”

The notice said the websites were seized “as part of law enforcement action” by the Bureau of Industry and Security, Office of Export Enforcement and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Marzieh Hashemi, a prominent American-born anchorwoman for Press TV, told The Associated Press that the channel was aware of the seizure but had no further information.

“We are just trying to figure out what this means,” she said.

Press TV, launched in June 2007, is the state-run Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting’s English-language service. There are no private television or radio stations in Iran. Satellite dishes, while widespread, also are illegal. That leaves IRIB with a monopoly on domestic airwaves.

While airing in Iran, Press TV focuses predominantly on international affairs through the lens of how leaders in the Islamic Republic see the world. Fierce criticism of British and American foreign policy is common. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, IRIB has been in the hands of hard-liners who back Iran’s government.
Its broadcasts have drawn fierce Western criticism, including allegations of anti-Semitism.
has anyone asked themselves why US would be accused? because we are evil and hated. new Hitler is on stage; we have too much evil and must share.

the article is peppered with summation.

'you know what it means?' the world is a fvcking scary place now and anyone can hack you- just make certain it's the US before you start shit.

total propaganda; i'd need to see more info. For shame WaPo; happy @hanimmal spends his $1 for this and not me:lol:
 

Rob Roy

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And as an American I don’t support any attacks against americans. As far as taking websites down for propoganda I feel like that’s a losing battle and we are guilty of the same in our own media, as well as China and many other nations.
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mooray

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Ok this is America so I respect your rights but you’re coming across as arrogant, judgemental and prejudice. Just thought someone should point it out. Not going to bother on here anymore but someone had to stand up to all of the nonsense. Thanks for the insight.
That's a fair reply. You made a couple mistakes and I pointed them out. There's a cycle that's been observed many times and with that comes a degree of confidence and coarseness in these replies, which no doubt could give an arrogance vibe. I'll push back a little on the prejudice part, that's why I use words like "tend to be" instead of "are", things like that. I try to leave room for the anomalies out there. Still, unless someone has been insulated from politics over the last five years, it's not possible to be a self-proclaimed republican today and be philosophically consistent with conservatism. If that's who you think you are, you're really fucking up in there somewhere. And don't take this as a dem suckoff thing. They're just the far lesser of the two evils. I'll choose a little blind/inept/naïve/whatever over straight up malicious ten out of ten times.
 

CatHedral

Well-Known Member
Ban Religion & Save a Life
This is something totalitarians do. Do you admire the rest of the package? China? North Korea? Was Robespierre one of your heroes?

Humans have a tendency toward religion that is basic to our natures. What you suggest is every bit as unnatural as classifying masturbation as a sin.
 

topcat

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This is something totalitarians do. Do you admire the rest of the package? China? North Korea? Was Robespierre one of your heroes?

Humans have a tendency toward religion that is basic to our natures. What you suggest is every bit as unnatural as classifying masturbation as a sin.
Sarcasm eludes you.
 

oswizzle

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We all know who controls MSM … zero credibility… anything that goes against the narrative is axed… you have an obvious bias towards disliking Iran… did the Western Media ever teach u about how Iran and Russia saved the entire Middle East from Western backed and created ISIS? Meanwhile the U.S is still in Syria siphoning all the Oil up… can’t make this stuff up bro
 

hanimmal

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We all know who controls MSM … zero credibility… anything that goes against the narrative is axed… you have an obvious bias towards disliking Iran… did the Western Media ever teach u about how Iran and Russia saved the entire Middle East from Western backed and created ISIS? Meanwhile the U.S is still in Syria siphoning all the Oil up… can’t make this stuff up bro
I'd point out that we don't really even know what 'MSM' means, much less who would control it.

It is one of those stupid propaganda trigger phrases trolls like to spam and pretend like it means something.
 

mooray

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It's like a visceral response test. They hook up a little sensor to your pee pee and show you images and if you get a tingle....they've found what you like. Stop liking trash and they won't feed you trash. The same amount of feelings we have for the media is a 1:1 of how we feel about ourselves, we're just too stupid to know it.
 
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