ARMA3 banned in Iran

[concurssi 11]

Are the other ArmA titles banned in Iran as well?

Or are they just so butthurt about being a faction in ArmA 3 that they'd ban only that?

I read a book once which said that the Taleban banned all books, music, movies and games from the west in Afghanistan. I didn't think of this before, but I kind of expected Iran to have done the same already, but if they're banning single titles, then I guess they actually have video games there?

Woah, my world just got rocked :-o

[Haystack15 10]

I having a hard time trying to stop laughing at the fact that they banned Google.

[Jastreb 69]

Read the whole article and then think about reasons.

http://www.neurope.eu/article/iran-bans-google-establishes-domestic-network

Dont let the flashing title gets you away from the point :j:

[oxmox 73]

There are more countries in middle east or far east who filter/block the Internet or ban games:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Arab_Spring

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games

Edited September 27, 2012 by oxmox

[Dwarden 1124]

what i find interesting is that the ban came actually before anyone could really play it or tell the gameplay (if we exclude the E3 and GC test missions)

[onlyrazor 11]

what i find interesting is that the ban came actually before anyone could really play it or tell the gameplay (if we exclude the E3 and GC test missions)

It's obvious - Iranian spies have infiltrated BIS! They're leaking the test builds! :p

[vilas 473]

There are more countries in middle east or far east who filter/block the Internet or ban games:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Arab_Spring

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games

yes, exactly, but Iran is not in alliance with US interersts so everyone talks about it,

the same with for example stoning woman, torturing woman

when in pro-US Arab countries there are dozens of executions noone tells about it, when in Iran there is single execution, whole mainstream media shout as loud they can

it is pure hipocrisy "if our allie do bad things we keep silence, when our enemy do single bad thing we shout about it"

it was of course the same in Soviet era, when Soviet allie broke human rights all was okay, when on US university cop hit Black students by baton our newspapers were writing about it on and on and on for whole month,

there was even joke in pre-1989 Soviet block "and they beat Black" and anyone knew this joke sentence which was propaganda's answer to Martial Law protests in Poland in 1981 ,

when US people watched relations of Soviet-block and Martial Law in Poland in 81, we watched TV relations of US policeman beating Black students ,

i wonder how many of people in the west know for example about human rights issues in country in middle of Europe, my country Poland ?

anyone read about guy sentenced for joking about current president ?

http://www.hfhr.pl/en/rozpoczal-sie-proces-autora-portalu-%E2%80%9Eantykomor-pl-relacja-z-sadu/

sentenced for 15 months

http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/112235,Court-finds-man-guilty-of-insulting-Polish-president-on-satirical-web-site

and whole this in middle of Europe in country where people earn 300-600 Euro per month

+ plus my own case ( http://www.createforum.com/vilas/viewtopic.php?mforum=vilas&t=5&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=525&mforum=vilas in the middle of page osted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 8:16 am , where i write about my personal problems with law in my homeland)

before we clean Iran, first we must clean our own homes cause we also have our own internal dirts in our own homes

and what is "politicall correctnes" like not another kind of cenzorship ? you can write good things about gay parade but you cannot write bad things, is it not cenzorship ?

it is also cenzorship and ban, political correctness is also kind of cenzorship,

or the for example problems with writing about poverty which is erased from internet forums in my land (because of propaganda of economicall succes almost noone from mainstream media allow to write stat data about poverty and only thanx to German EU parliament members Europe founds about it - last action in EU parliament)

Iran is not the only one "bad" country, it is one of many many many , if anyone calls for human rights in Iran, why not Saudi Arabia ? why not Palestine ?

let's try people to keep the same maner and the same demands to whole globe, not only to few countries on our globe , so thanx for posting those WIKI data, great and not found before data ontopic

also remember all of us that no matter if media is state controlled, or busines controlled - they are controlled as well

Iranian won't get Arma3 probably like people in Saudi Arabia or Bahrain or Quatar or .. other countries which forbid hard-rock, hip-hop, techno, metal, porn, or which behead for homosexual relations in homes etc.

let's try to clean our own homes first

Edited September 28, 2012 by vilas

[Tonci87 163]

yes, exactly, but Iran is not in alliance with US interersts so everyone talks about it,

the same with for example stoning woman, torturing woman

when in pro-US Arab countries there are dozens of executions noone tells about it, when in Iran there is single execution, whole mainstream media shout as loud they can

it is pure hipocrisy "if our allie do bad things we keep silence, when our enemy do single bad thing we shout about it"

it was of course the same in Soviet era, when Soviet allie broke human rights all was okay, when on US university cop hit Black students by baton our newspapers were writing about it on and on and on for whole month,

there was even joke in pre-1989 Soviet block "and they beat Black" and anyone knew this joke sentence which was propaganda's answer to Martial Law protests in Poland in 1981 ,

when US people watched relations of Soviet-block and Martial Law in Poland in 81, we watched TV relations of US policeman beating Black students ,

i wonder how many of people in the west know for example about human rights issues in country in middle of Europe, my country Poland ?

anyone read about guy sentenced for joking about current president ?

http://www.hfhr.pl/en/rozpoczal-sie-proces-autora-portalu-%E2%80%9Eantykomor-pl-relacja-z-sadu/

sentenced for 15 months

http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/112235,Court-finds-man-guilty-of-insulting-Polish-president-on-satirical-web-site

and whole this in middle of Europe in country where people earn 300-600 Euro per month

+ plus my own case ( http://www.createforum.com/vilas/viewtopic.php?mforum=vilas&t=5&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=525&mforum=vilas in the middle of page osted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 8:16 am , where i write about my personal problems with law in my homeland)

before we clean Iran, first we must clean our own homes cause we also have our own internal dirts in our own homes

and what is "politicall correctnes" like not another kind of cenzorship ? you can write good things about gay parade but you cannot write bad things, is it not cenzorship ?

it is also cenzorship and ban, political correctness is also kind of cenzorship,

or the for example problems with writing about poverty which is erased from internet forums in my land (because of propaganda of economicall succes almost noone from mainstream media allow to write stat data about poverty and only thanx to German EU parliament members Europe founds about it - last action in EU parliament)

Iran is not the only one "bad" country, it is one of many many many , if anyone calls for human rights in Iran, why not Saudi Arabia ? why not Palestine ?

let's try people to keep the same maner and the same demands to whole globe, not only to few countries on our globe , so thanx for posting those WIKI data, great and not found before data ontopic

also remember all of us that no matter if media is state controlled, or busines controlled - they are controlled as well

Iranian won't get Arma3 probably like people in Saudi Arabia or Bahrain or Quatar or .. other countries which forbid hard-rock, hip-hop, techno, metal, porn, or which behead for homosexual relations in homes etc.

let's try to clean our own homes first

The amount of corruption in east european countries never fails to amaze me, it´s even worse than in croatia....

[vilas 473]

http://www.pah.org.pl/nasze-dzialania/203/poverty_and_hunger_in_poland

this is something to deal with as well as human rights in Iran, as well as i wonder about erotic websites in other Arab countries too

[Jastreb 69]

The amount of corruption in east european countries never fails to amaze me, it´s even worse than in croatia....

Croatia being geographically part of Eastern Europe, but nowadays new maps get drawn. Its all politics...

http://europe--maps.blogspot.com/search/label/Eastern%20Europe

Edited September 30, 2012 by _MaSSive
Edited by kind request from Vilas ;)

[oxmox 73]

Actually the term "Western Europe" is outdated, since its origin is from the cold war the political divide into capitalistic or communistic regimes. Neverless the term is often still used in common linguistic usage and has gegraphical a different meaning.

geographical map (West/Middle/Southeast/East/North/South in colors)

http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Grossgliederung_Europas.png&filetimestamp=20080401090648

[Deadfast 43]

Vilas, Poland is even further away from Iran than the Balkan.

As for the Google ban, the Iranians haven't actually banned it, they blocked anything running over SSL. Without SSL all information is sent unencrypted and makes spying on people neatly simple.

[FegelCineplex 1]

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iran_gov addweapon "banhammer";
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[Lorca 10]

I'm surprised that Honey Nut Cheerios hasn't been banned in Iran; that tasty crunchy circular form looks rather suspicious for the volatile home security. And that Captain Crunch guy, I think there's a conspiracy going on somewhere.

Edited October 23, 2012 by Lorca

[-=Borz=- 10]

Funny banning a game that can be used to beat some dirty Westerner arses (if you want and design your own mission to do so).

Give an Iranian person a videogame and he/she will beat dirty westerner's arse for 1 day. Give him/her a free copy of an ArmA title and he/she will beat westerner's arse forever ;)

Persian Proverb

[Phantom Six 25]

Funny banning a game that can be used to beat some dirty Westerner arses (if you want and design your own mission to do so).

Give an Iranian person a videogame and he/she will beat dirty westerner's arse for 1 day. Give him/her a free copy of an ArmA title and he/she will beat westerner's arse forever ;)

Persian Proverb

Oh to think of all the missions they can make as they play as their own people killing NATO troops. Haven't they thought of that? Instead they turn down their opportunity to beat a westerner's arse xD . Well, take it or leave it.

Like cmon, the Russians were the baddies in Operation Flashpoint and they aren't offended. I hear they even had their own campaign in the Russian perspective, but I guess it gets old making bad Russians all the time though I do like playing as them.

[SWAT_BigBear 0]

Maybe when the game is out, someone will make a video based on this thread. :581:

[dale 11]

Well I think the main reason why they did this is because they know the modders are going to setup iran with loads of nukes, which of course is just not in their best interests :D

[oyman 0]

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[TheGreatBenji 1]

Woahh!, i'm suprised^^

[GRS 10]

Governments worldwide ban guns from law abiding citizens because they are "bad". BIS forum generally approves, while simultaneously criticizing policing. One obviously messed up country bans a video game. BIS forum goes into uproar.

You guys really think that the government of Iran gives a damn about the possibility that it could be used two ways?

[ProfTournesol 956]

Because countries banning weapons are usually democratic ones, while countries banning video games for political reasons aren't. Comparing both "bans" is lame.

[GRS 10]

...right...

I'm sure it has always been quite the democratic process, just like my country's 1994 ban; I'm sure that was the result of a vote. Democracy does not exist in the real world.

Either way, this is not a good thing, but I cannot believe that so many people are up in arms. Is everyone really this shocked or just so eager to defend their game?

Edited November 25, 2012 by GRS

[Amsel 1]

It's just a video game. Donnow why that want to ban an video game just because of its content.

[ARcher5869 1]

Thats a shame for people who live in Iran and want to play D: