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Iranian Election Protests Censored
Tens of thousands of protesters hit the streets in the aftermath of the Iranian election as the government rolled out a nationwide censorship campaign, shutting down mobile phone service, text messaging, and access to news sites. Fortunately, proxy servers have been set up to allow media access from within Iran’s borders – and once again, Twitter rises to the foreground as a powerful media/access/publication tool.
Twitter: the social networking tool we didn’t know we needed until we had it. I’d reference my old post about something similar, but I lost my blog archives and Electric Kitten (now under new management!) hasn’t responded to my request to have them retrieve my SQL table in exchange for my hard-earned cash. Thanks.
June 25th, 2009 at 2:46 am
Coverage of this has been limited everywhere.
Alot of people would like to wash their hands of this, except of course the Iranian people who among the majority simply appear to want new leadership. There appears to be some activitity involving foreigners though, both US and British citizens are reportedly being removed from these election protests leaving Iranian authorities to think they represented a small part of a clandestine operation by US and British intelligence to destabilize the government. It wouldn’t be the first time it happened.