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Marshall Kirkpatrick
very bad news - Iranian Parliament to Debate Death Penalty for Bloggers http://is.gd/M0h
WTF?! - l0ckergn0me
i think they are debating weather to include wordpress bloggers or just users of blogger. :) - (jeff)isageek
It's not exactly a very liberal/free-speechy kind of nation is it? - Adam Turetzky
This more than anything I can think of makes me glad I'm American today. - Sprague D
Sunny-side up: At least they're debating it. :-) - Louis Gray
@Sprague D there are plenty of other countries that don't even have the death penalty for anything - America is only slightly up the scale you know - Ivan Pope from twhirl
I feel sorry for the Iranian people who have to deal with these idiots - Shey, Jamaican of FF
this is just part of a "good cop, bad cop" game. they'll defeat the bill and then everyone will go "Yay! now bloggers only get torture and years in prison for being snarky about the government! Iran is teh progressive democracy!" - Karim
Aaron, don't let Sean McBride see that! - Akiva Moskovitz
Peter, your comment illicited a surprise snort out of me. I never snort. Good show! - Akiva Moskovitz
Need a shirt now that says, "Give me Blogging, or give me death!" - proud to be an American! - Jesse Stay
@Ivan Pope - nice reply - people in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks and all that @Peter Simard - I think you'll find Nero (he of the horse for senator fame) was higher on the dodgy ranking than the Iranian Government or Ahmadinejad himself @Jonnyc - spoken like a true Xenophobe - is it timely to mention the debacles that have been performed in the name of other religions - witness the crusades anyone That said - this isn't what Islam is about - another case of zealots manipulating a religious message for their own purposes...... - Ben Kepes from FriendFeed MT Plugin
I believe they will just chop off hands for tweets - Nicholas Molnar
crazy world we're living in - Dobromir Hadzhiev
i am from iran. this isn,t only for wordpress or blogger.it,s all about bloggers in iran.:( - mhmazidi
:O - Shandiz
Why would a people put up with such nonsense? - Vince DeGeorge