Iranians defeat Yahoo Mail!
By Kourosh Ziabari • Sep 1st, 2008 • Category: Entertainment • 25 Comments •It occurred in November 2007 when the Yahoo governors attempted to remove the name of Iran from their supporting countries in signup page lists using the pretext that US imposed some sanctions on the country.
While it was already announced officially that the US exports to Iran has became tenfold despite of the sanctions during the incumbency period of George Bush as Americans president, Yahoo state-funded website removed the name of Iran from its signup available countries list and banned the Iranian users from creating new accounts.
Many journalists and experts believe that the issue of Iran sanctions is media propaganda rather than being practical while the 2008 statistics show that Iran is currently the largest economic partner of France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Australia in the Persian Gulf region and also the fourth largest economic ally of Netherlands, Denmark and UK in Asia following S. Korea, China and Japan.
Anyhow, after the removal of Iran’s name, the waves of protest embarked in Iran and also among the Iranians residing in other countries.
The first step was debuting a Google Bomb called “Hello Yahoo mail” with the aim of introducing Iran to global opinions, internet users and Yahoo directors as well.
A young Iranian cyber activist Mohammad Tavakoli, established the “helloyahoomail.net” with the slogan: “Culture is our weapon, the weak impose sanctions!” calling for the international attention toward the 7500 years old history of Persian culture and civilization.
The main goal of this Google Bomb which objected the “Yahoo mail” keyword was to provide the users searching “Yahoo mail” in search engines with some unbiased and realistic information on Iran and its people, culture, arts, sciences and history so as to express that Yahoo is altercating with an ancient and peacemaking nation.
The website interviewed many outstanding personalities including university professors and political figures regarding the issue and all condemned Yahoo.
“Hello Yahoo mail” also commenced a national movement in order to encourage the existing Yahoo Iranian users to remove their accounts from the site.
It is estimated that 5 million of Yahoo Iranian users removed their accounts from the Yahoo database after this national call and this called a huge damage to the international credit of Yahoo.
Anyhow, Yahoo mail has suddenly re-included the name of Iran into its list of countries three days ago, without any announcement or apologizes.
It is not clear that why Yahoo removed the name of Iran unexpectedly and why re-added it again, but it is clear that “Hello Yahoo mail” was a simple reflection of Persian talent and power.
The cyber influence of Iranian bloggers, journalists and activists lead to the unforgettable failure for Yahoo and proved that hostility, atrocity and animosity are not proper ways for dealing with ancient nations and civilizations.
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This is really intresting, lets put scenario on our nation, do u think we can react in the same way. I dont think so
There is no way you can remove your name from yahoo after creating an account in it. You just need to stop using the account and still you can login into the account later on and it still exists, but only the mails will be deleted off.
This is another hoax chain mail going round the net like the ones that mentioned that on the day of 9/11 attacks, all the jews skipped office and stuff. All crap.
@Philip
http://help.yahoo.com/l/ca/yahoo/mail/config/config-12.html
check out the above link for your reference
One thing about Iranian leaders. They donot wear black goggles and drive golfcarts in texan ranches and marrying american women well i donot know.
Even if its crap, it still gives a message to the people that with unity and combined efforts, we can make a difference in the life of our nations. I think we Pakistanis can learn a lot from this small fantasy story or a factual one.
Pro Pakistan Team
Way to go guys!!!!!! im genuinely impressed at their spirits. I wish we Pakis would be also like that. Inshallah, one day we will also do something much greater than this and the world will see it!!!
Kiran, you refer to Pakistanis as ‘Pakis’ - I always thought that this was a derogatory expression to identify us, invented by some screwed up racist mind. Please correct me - who is misinformed here, you or me.
Aftab man, you confuse me everytime :-/ Why do u think everyone is a racist? Be open minded, not everyone is the way as you take them. BTW whats wrong with it? Is it bad to call Pakistanis, Pakis? I dont think so…….. As long as it doesnt humiiate us as Pakistanis, its ok to use it. People come up with words which they feel are easy to pronounce and according to what i know, foreigners use Paki instead of Pakistani ‘cuz its easy for them to say it……and i dont think its wrong to use this word. Pakistan is our identity and for me, there is no harm in using a word which differentiates us as “Pakistanis”.
Here is the difference of how names are used linguistically. If a black person is called (by a non-black) a negro, it is wrong and you may get a slap. But it is okay for the black person to call the other of the same race a negro. Same goes with remarks to Jews (unless it happens to be someone else calling such names to the Jews and then you are called anti-semantic and a bigot).
So Kiran my Paki friend, do continue and enjoy being a Paki. But my advice to you and others is to not practice using words that can be perceived as being racial, or bring out hostility and prejudice.
@ dr. alshaer
I still don’t get it, that how this word falls into the category of racism. Nevertheless, i’ll not use this word again to avoid confusions (happy Aftab?).
Kiran, in the UK, the words like Paki are using quite negatively in reference to Pakistanis. That is it. I should have kept silent and not said anything.
Kiran, let me assure you, personally I could not care less. As a matter of fact, I am all for making it convenient for other people, those who have problems with the ‘phoenitics’ of a foreign name. However, I thought and still think that if (and I know for sure the intent was not as innocent behinf this term) there is any malice associated with it then we owe it to ourselves to discourage. Otherwise, who am I to demand anything from you or anyone here, feel free to use any ‘term’ , ‘phrase’ ‘names’, and ‘nicknames’ that you like or prefer. My point was not to crtiticize you and I did not intend confusing you and if I did, it is unfortunate for me that I fail to communicate. Forgive me.
Kiran, do I really confuse you, like you say, everytime? As far as my being ‘happy’ or not ‘happy’ is concerned, it has nothing to do with our discussion.
Dr alshaer is ever so kind to explain the issue. Blessings!
@ Dr. Alshaer & Aftab
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Thank you so much, you guys cleared the confusion i had. I have understood what both of you wanted to say and i’ll make sure not to use such terms again and if i ever do, plz correct me.
Aftab, not every time you fail to explain me things, i, myself, get confused many a times and its my disability to understand your explanations (sometimes
i dont see sany reasonable and logical reason for not calling paki.some body please explain the controversy with realtion to racism.
Kiran and Doctor Raza Bhai, first from American Heritage Dictionary - “PAKI”
Pak•i (pāk’ē) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. Pak•is Chiefly British Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a person from Pakistan or neighboring countries or for the descendant of such a person.
[Short for Pakistani.]
Now here is an interesting reference made to ‘Paki’ in the chapter called “Pure Chutney” in Prof. Amitava Kumar’s book by the name “Bombay-London-New York”. This should help you understand the point I was trying to make.
“In Syal’s second novel, Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee, published in 1999, the scene has shifted to the Indians, who are, in a more practiced sense, British. The children of the first generation of Indian immigrants have grown up. Nostalgia has given way to new pleasures and problems. Syal builds the novel around the stories of three young women, three friends, as they manage their lives, their relationships, and their careers. In Anita and Me, the reader was shocked to hear that Meena’s best friend, Anita, who was white, had been involved in a violent attack on a stranger named Rajesh Bhatra. Anita had said, “And we went Paki bashing, it was bosting! This Paki was standing at a bus stop, he was in a suit, it was dead funny! Nah, I only watched, the lads like did it, you know, and us wenches, we just shouted and held their lager. . . . They really did him over and you know what, the stupid bastard didn’t do nothing back!” But over and over, in the pages of Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee, what we discover is a complex mapping of the violence that we are capable of inflicting on each other.”
Amitava Kumar (Professor) - ‘Bombay-London-New York’
Aftab, thankyou so much for the reference. It was really kind of you to correct me and clear the confusions.
I really couldn’t care less about Paki being used as a derogatory term. A lot of (non-derogatory) terms including Arab, Pakistani, Muslim, etc have been and are used that way. So we should stop using all those too?
The term to me means Pakistani. It means cleanliness and purity (in Urdu). And we call Pakistan the land of the pure. I’m hereby reclaiming the term as a Pakistani citizen. It’s ours. We decide what we want it to mean. And if someone finds our existence offensive, well good, I’m a Paki and they can keep of fuming for the rest of their lives.
Waqas, brilliant man!!! I never thought this way. You are 110% right. Thats why i said earlier that theres no harm in using such a term which identifies us as Pakistanis and its upon others how they use it.
Aftab and Dr. Alshaer, i hope you guys are also convinced now….
Of course, one may call oneself anything one likes. Just by the way, problem in this case is that it’s not us who decided calling ourselves ‘Paki’. And by the way, the word for cleanliness in Urdu is, I thought, ‘Pak’.
Sure, I already have said above that I am nobody and not trying to stop anyone.
Go right ahead with whatever you like!
thnx aftab
Aftab S. Alam, I do totally understand your point. I simply don’t think I should care about what someone far far away thinks of me. I /would/ care if it were justified, but it isn’t.
And the word for ‘cleanliness’ in Urdu is ‘pakeezgi’, but ‘paki’ and ’safai’ are also used for that. The words for clean is ‘paak’ and ’saaf’.
Everyone is entitled to have opinions of their own, and I respect your’s. But I personally don’t have any issue with being called a Paki.
Fine!
By the way are you ‘the’ Waqas?
Aftab S. Alam, I don’t know the answer to that. I know I’m Waqas. But ‘the’ Waqas? Probably not
The terms like Indogs, Pakis, Americunts etc. are created by the Wh*re Queen of England.
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