Matt Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 http://twitter.com/change_for_iran Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackey Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 http://twitter.com/change_for_iran If you can forgive me skipping over the political situation, which is being well documented in the mainstream media, this incident has shown the power of the Internet to an extent I never thought possible, and new media in particular. Twitter has become a driving force for the masses in Iran to communicate both internally and with the outside world. So much so that they stopped the planned Twitter downtime last night to keep the communication lines open. To the extent that the Iranian secret police are now monitoring it. It's astounding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted June 16, 2009 Author Share Posted June 16, 2009 There are many breaking through Iran's firewalls and heightened security to get this information out, and to get information in as well. Their local sources of information are "untrustworthy". http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8101299.stm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackey Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 There are many breaking through Iran's firewalls and heightened security to get this information out, and to get information in as well. Their local sources of information are "untrustworthy". Exactly, and with Twitter accessible from so many different sources it's practically unblockable (you can simply text them) and is proving vital to their cause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beag_teeets Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 Mousavi isn't much more liberal than Ahmadinejad but has to be better than that loony. Funny how the Iranians stage this protest yet after a large amount of unrest in Britain with our mps and system we just carry on regardless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankly Mr Shankly Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 Exactly, and with Twitter accessible from so many different sources it's practically unblockable (you can simply text them) and is proving vital to their cause. Can we do a pre-paid mobile phone drop via parachute in North Korea do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimsleftfoot Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 Mousavi isn't much more liberal than Ahmadinejad but has to be better than that loony. Funny how the Iranians stage this protest yet after a large amount of unrest in Britain with our mps and system we just carry on regardless. Actually people have gone out and rallied in similar circumstances. Chartism and later the Suffragette movement spring to mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beag_teeets Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 Granted but I was referring to recent times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimsleftfoot Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 Granted but I was referring to recent times. Exactly, to compare our current situation to theirs is quite ludicrous in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beag_teeets Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 Exactly, to compare our current situation to theirs is quite ludicrous in my opinion. Granted a direct comparison isn't correct but what would it take to get the people of Britain on the streets? Police killing innocent civilians Near collapse in economic system Fascists winning at a local and european level Cabinet disintegrating Rising fuel prices .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimsleftfoot Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 Granted a direct comparison isn't correct but what would it take to get the people of Britain on the streets? Police killing innocent civilians Near collapse in economic system Fascists winning at a local and european level Cabinet disintegrating Rising fuel prices .... I would think it would be a last resort option in most cases and in the UK we have far more options to exhaust first. Though the fuel strikes of Sept 2000 were quite significant in some parts of the country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeslover Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 I would think it would be a last resort option in most cases and in the UK we have far more options to exhaust first. Though the fuel strikes of Sept 2000 were quite significant in some parts of the country. Wait until BT gets to power and sets up a Ministry of Electronic Goods Production to make them according to his ideals. The masses will be torching Downing Street when they realise they have to join a 5 year waiting list to get a crappy black and white model out of 1970s Bulgaria. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackey Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8103269.stm Twitter increases in importance as International media outlets come under increasing pressure in Iran. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackey Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8103577.stm Further protests are reported to be taking place in Iran, although the BBC has been unable to confirm details. Twitter is alive with reports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted June 16, 2009 Author Share Posted June 16, 2009 http://twitter.com/change_for_iran footage as soon as somebody from the protest gets home! there is no mobile/wireless internet connection right now not only that they attacked us, now they are hiding the bodies of those we lost! I will kill ahmadynezhad myself! there is no need to hide their names anymore Mobina Ehtrami, Fateme Borati, Kasra Sharafi, Kambiz Shoaee & Mohsen Imani; all killed by ansar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted June 16, 2009 Author Share Posted June 16, 2009 http://twitter.com/randomhuman RT @austinheap: We can now provide free multi-gigabit VPNs to #Iran! E-mail me@austinheap.com for access PLS RT #iranelection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beag_teeets Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 Wait until BT gets to power and sets up a Ministry of Electronic Goods Production to make them according to his ideals. The masses will be torching Downing Street when they realise they have to join a 5 year waiting list to get a crappy black and white model out of 1970s Bulgaria. Which will still be working long after most plasma and lcd tvs have long packed in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeslover Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 Which will still be working long after most plasma and lcd tvs have long packed in. According to your Commissar of Reliability Statistics... With a decade in the salt mines for anyone who differs... Conveniently, my TV is about 5 years old. It would have been £800 on the market (£200 to me what with working for Philips at the time) and had won the EISA TV of the Year award (the generally accepted prestige industry thing). 28 inch, CRT with what was then the best picture technology in the world (Pixel Plus, a sort of synthetic HD). Now for the same money I could have a 32 inch LCD or Plasma HD screen. And if it broke, I could take the other one I bought in budget out of my bedroom and put it in the front. That, my friend, is the wonder of the market system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted June 17, 2009 Author Share Posted June 17, 2009 The InfoWar continues: Propaganda sites appearing all over the internet, and counter-DDOS attacks on propaganda sites closing them down as soon as they are identified. Photoshopped Ahmendinajad rally: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted June 17, 2009 Author Share Posted June 17, 2009 http://www.flickr.com/photos/fhashemi/sets...758530748/show/ another set of pics, please be careful, may not suitable for everybody: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fhashemi/sets...758530748/show/ SOME OF THE PICTURES ARE DISTURBING Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted June 20, 2009 Author Share Posted June 20, 2009 RT: @randomhuman: Girl shot in Iran http://bit.ly/7ze8Z Sickening... #iranelection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted June 20, 2009 Author Share Posted June 20, 2009 TBH, I'm skeptical of this video after watching it a few times. I think it may be anti-government propaganda. I'm not saying the wounded can't move their limbs, and she looks non compos mentis but she manages to move her left leg into a better position about 0:07... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackey Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 According to the BBC (I think) the police have begun shooting almost indiscriminantly into the crowds. This is getting very very ugly now. The UN may have to step in. It's scary to think that we could be witnessing another Tiananmen square travesty twenty years on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackey Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 http://www.fark.com/ As more and more sites are blocked by the Iranian government (Google/Gmail, Yahoo/Ymail, all HTTPS sites et al) and the worlds press are locked away in their hotels pending deportation the above Fark website has become a conduit for getting Iran's news out. I'd meant to post this earlier in the week but it slipped my mind. Search/Scroll for posts with Iran in the title, no duh!, and they will usually contain first had log's of events. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldhamSheridan Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 Isn't the real question why are they doing this (the clerics)? The odds are the current incumbant won the election anyway. So what is their aim in upping the numbers. Is it, in the long run, to slightly westerise their country or stamp down China-styee on the younger generation. Personally, with the massive younger generation outnumbering all the other folk I think they may be looking to remain in charge with some middle ground. I guess we'll find out. Whatever is happening, this is thought out by them up top and not just some reactionalism (if that is even a word). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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