In the News: Twitter and YouTube in Iran
In case you haven’t been paying attention, Iran just had it’s elections, and the Iranians are pissed. The defending president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, just “won by a landslide”. This statement was made, however, after counting paper ballots for just over 4 hours. The riots are enormous, as you can imagine. Now I don’t want to go into politics on this site, but what is happening in Iran bears mention on a site that focuses on the mobile lifestyle.
In Iran, sms messages and websites are being monitord and blocked by the government, presumably to prevent the views of the opposition from spreading. But they have found how to beat a technically ignorant administration. From their cell phones, Iranians they are posting videos of the protests to YouTube, and Tweeting news, opinions and photos to Twitter. The word will always get out when you care enough, and are smart enough to do it.
Good luck to you, friends in Iran. I salute you.
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Scottastic
Scott has worked worked a multitude of jobs, including but not limited to: process serving (before it was cool), security/loss prevention, web design, and retail management. He is now employed selling mobile phones for a major retail chain.
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