> The Internet is easily censored. The neo-liberals got their arses kicked. The big players like Google/Apple/AWS are partly to blame. China runs the GFI as a service.
The author mentioned some of the blocking methods, so that's cool.
A detestable person that thinks he can circumvent the regime? Presumably a paleo-conservative (or whatever the opposite of neo-liberal is in the mind of the blogger) would not be so naive and would look at real "solutions", as opposed to the neo-liberal, who is interested in non-solutions.
Pretty awful ideas floating around in this guy's head.
That said, it sounds cool to mouth-breathers so they often use it completely out of context, like this author did.
Seems like this was a real movement but isn't so relevant anymore, and now people are misusing the term. Now "hawkish" or "interventionist" is pretty close to the old meaning of neocon. I'm willing to accept it as a term for a historical movement, but if someone tells me X newly relevant person is a neocon, I'll basically discard that.
p.s.
Basically the occupation theocratic regime of IR positions itself in its propaganda to demoralize Iranian resistance by prophecies of doom and gloom for Iran should it be cured of the IR disease: there is ISIS or Daesh [or "it will Syria 2.0"] (aka terror); there is that crafty prince in KSA that wants Iran to parition; there is the crafty sultan in Turkie (sic) that has pan turk on his mind; and should the country remain intact let there be no doubt that "neo-liberals" will do a Greece or whatever to Iran.
A liberal is someone who values individual freedoms and human rights.
A neoliberal is someone who values deregulated economy, privatization of all things, free markets, free trade, and open economic borders.
The Iranian regime would be a conservative one, where they value limited social rights that favor some social morals over the individuals own, like what women/men can and can't do, what you can and can't eat, what you can and can't drink, what you can and can't teach or believe in, etc.
The Iranian economic model is a mixed bag, kind of a social-caputalist mix, with lots of state owned and managed enterprise, but also allowing private ones. That said it comes with a lot of regulations to have them enforce the conservative social norms.