Iran
A App against Iran’s Sittenpolizei
A new App helps Iranians, the strict Sittenwächter of the country to trick. But as soon as you are on the market, it is already banned by the government.
A group of anonymous Software specialists has the new App called Gershad developed. The Iranian Sittenwächter can be found everywhere in the country on busy streets. They ensure that the citizens of the strict clothing and etiquette of the Islamic Republic of keep. Women without sufficient Kopftuchbedeckung, with an “inappropriate” hairstyle, or too much Makeup can be punished. Even men with fashionable, Western clothes are sometimes rebuked.
Those who do not follow the rules, runs the risk of a car being pulled and in a Besserungseinrichtung to be brought. There, the Offenders are taught how ordinary citizens must behave, fined or even indicted.
In a statement on its website, developers write the Gershad App that, of the three million women, 2013 of the Sittenpolizei were arrested 207.000 been forced to be, in writing, to the state for their behavior to excuse; of 18,000 had been charged.
The social media, the developers say, be filled with photos of women, from the Sittenwächtern be beaten. With the App you would have “a low-risk path is found, against this injustice to protest”.
What is immoral is subjective, and will of the Sittenwächtern time, sometimes not so interpreted
The authorities of Dodge
The Gershad App on Tuesday to a hit in the Google Play store, where Android users in masses the Anti-Sittenwächter Software on their Smartphones herunterluden. The demand was so great that the authorities Wind of it, had the App less than 24 hours after the Start is prohibited.
The App works by local users to the location of Sittenwächtern on the maps, the App indicated. If the evidence for a location to pile up, others by a Symbol on the map on the danger. The users will then be suggested workarounds helped, the Sittenpolizei Dodge.
The number of alerts for a location back again, eventually disappears the icon of the card.
Unpleasant Encounters
Internet censorship in Iran is widespread. Many Iranians circumvent the restrictions through Proxy servers and thus have access to “forbidden” social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.
Many Iranians like the new App, despite the ban. On Twitter says one of them: “While the Rest of the world Apps invents, to the police, and thus protect it, must we (Iranians) in the Apps to create, around us, before the authorities to get to safety.”
همه جاى دنيا اپليكشن ميسازن در دسترس پليس I امنيت باشن،ما اپليكشن ميسازيم چطور ازش دور باشيم .#گرشاد
— کاپیتان (@capline91) 10. February 2016
This user writes: “How desperate must we (Iranians) really be that we, from fear of the police on the road to face Apps must invent.”
ولي چقد بدبختيم كه از ترس پليس باس اپ بسازن كه I خيابون بهشون بر نخوريم#گرشاد
— جويیه منتظرِ نگار (@_amirjoey) 9. February 2016
This user says that it it “no matter whether the App works or not, but every Download is already a Protest.”
من اصلا برام مهم نيست اين اپليكيشن كار كنه يا نه ولي هر بار دانلودش يه اعتراضه#گرشاد
— ١٣بدر (@elhamjim) 9. February 2016
In this funny comment from a user in Mashhad in northeastern Iran, it says: “so Far, gave us the Sittenpolizei a reason our Girlfriends to take home. Now has the App to naught.”
ما گشتِ ارشادو بهونه میکردیم دوس دخترمون بیاد خونه حالا اپ #گرشاد چی میگه این وسط :))
— Mehrdxd (@Mehrdxd) 10. February 2016
A woman turns in the debate with the remark: “Why do we really need the Gershad App? The men tell us already, we should be with them to go home, because everywhere outside the police around.”
گرشاد چیه؟ ما خودمون “بیا خونه مون،بیرون مامورا ریختن مذگان” داریم.
— خانم am ツ (@Jenzadeh) 10. February 2016
A concern of more than a thousand App users is, however, that the Sittenpolizei access to the Software and to users Fast.
The Server is located abroad and is alleged to be from a private company operated. The security of the App users is of course paramount, it is through an encrypted SSL Protocol ensures.