24 January 2005

Mediocre Argumentation

This is absolute lunacy.

Iran has accused the US government of ordering an American internet service provider to stop hosting the website of an official Iranian news agency.

The Iranian Student News Agency said no explanation had been given by the server, called The Planet, for its abrupt move to terminate the contract.

Isna, which is widely read in Iran, says it has moved to another server, which it did not name.

The Planet was unable to comment immediately on the allegations.

The row has led to calls for Iran to develop its own satellite technology.

And the money shot?

A senior official in the Iranian ministry of Islamic guidance, which handles the media, accused the US government of breaching human rights by allegedly ordering the move.

Gentle reader, not being stoned to death for having been sold into prostitution at the tender age of eight is a fundamental human right. Not being captured without justification for accidentally straying into the limits of sovereign territorial waters is a fundamental human right. The Geneva Convention says that not being forced to give a videotaped confession is a fundamental human right.

Having your student group's website hosted by an American service provider is not a fundamental human right.

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