Tag: IRAN PROTESTS

Social networking gives us a cross-section of virtually every political opinion known to man. Are there racists and bigots? Of course. Tree-huggers and granola-munchers? Absolutely. And that's the magic. They may not subscribe to the same worldview or all check the same box every November, but the political masses are here, online, making their presence known. What we have before us is, for ...

During 2009's Iranian protests, viral technology suddenly found itself center stage of the global political theater, thanks to both Twitter, and, perhaps more importantly, some powerful video footage that resonated with international audiences. Now, nearly a year after the world was exposed to the gruesome clip of Neda Agha-Soltan's brutal murder in Iran, the moving image is at the forefront of ...

Iran has blocked Gmail before. In fact, think of any communicative or social networking site, and chances are that Iran has blocked it at some point. But yesterday, the government-run telecommunications company announced that Google's e-mail service would be blocked permanently and replaced with a state-run option. The national e-mail service will, of course, be tightly controlled and ...