With all permission to post this thread being given by evkl.
Most of you are probably, by now, aware of the situation in Iran. The election may well have been stolen. The people who feel it was are being brutally silenced. Many TV channels are no longer available. Reporters are banned from covering events the government doesn't want them covering (eg, anything the opposition does).
And of course, the government has declared war on the internet, in an attempt to control the information. They have closed access to news websites, to Facebook, to anything they could control that would potentially allow the opposition to organize, except, of course Twitter. And on Twitter, they are hunting down Iranian posters, tracking them from Twitter to real life. When news surface on twitters, and get retweeted from Iranian posters, they follow those links to find the "traitors". What happens to those they find? You can imagine.
There isn't much we can do. We can't go over there and beat up Ahmadinejad. We can't just make them vanish. But not much is NOT nothing. We do NOT have to sit down and do nothing.
We CAN help make it harder for Ahmadinejad's people to find and remove the people who have the "nerve" to talk on Twitter. We CAN allow Iranians to bypass their government's restriction. We CAN mess with the government's attempt to find tweeters. We may not have much power, but we are not powerless.
What we can do is not hard work, it's not risky work, but it can well be useful work, and it's work that we can do.
Anyone with me?
Most of you are probably, by now, aware of the situation in Iran. The election may well have been stolen. The people who feel it was are being brutally silenced. Many TV channels are no longer available. Reporters are banned from covering events the government doesn't want them covering (eg, anything the opposition does).
And of course, the government has declared war on the internet, in an attempt to control the information. They have closed access to news websites, to Facebook, to anything they could control that would potentially allow the opposition to organize, except, of course Twitter. And on Twitter, they are hunting down Iranian posters, tracking them from Twitter to real life. When news surface on twitters, and get retweeted from Iranian posters, they follow those links to find the "traitors". What happens to those they find? You can imagine.
There isn't much we can do. We can't go over there and beat up Ahmadinejad. We can't just make them vanish. But not much is NOT nothing. We do NOT have to sit down and do nothing.
We CAN help make it harder for Ahmadinejad's people to find and remove the people who have the "nerve" to talk on Twitter. We CAN allow Iranians to bypass their government's restriction. We CAN mess with the government's attempt to find tweeters. We may not have much power, but we are not powerless.
What we can do is not hard work, it's not risky work, but it can well be useful work, and it's work that we can do.
Anyone with me?
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