Web Pries Lid of Censorship by Iranian Government
New York Times, June 23, 2009
By Brian Stelter and Brad Stone
In Iran Internet users are still able -- at least in limited ways -- to send Twitter messages and transmit video to one another and to a world of spectators. Despite the Internet crackdown, the videos and tweets indicate to many that broadly distributed Internet tools cannot be completely repressed by an authoritarian government.
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