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Twittering in Tehran
onewheelwizzard:
A friend just posted the following Facebook status update:
" If you're on twitter, set your location to Tehran and your time zone to GMT +3.30. Security forces are hunting for bloggers using location/timezone searches. The more people at this location, the more of a logjam it creates for forces trying to shut Iranians' access to the internet down. Cut & paste & please pass it on."
I figured this was good enough to share. This can move to DISCUSS! if we want to make a serious thread about it, or it can just be a thread about whatever else comes to mind for you about this.
Coward:
It's quite bad, I know, but my knee-jerk response was 'some of those Iranians are taking this to heart too much...'
I'll get my coat.
Nodaisho:
I really don't know much about the situation currently, if they get a bunch of people using Tehran as the location, wouldn't they just start looking for the people saying they are from the outlying locations? Seems like some people should set their location as one of the suburbs as well.
And I really hope some of the Iranian twitterers consider changing their location and time zone to something other than a place in Iran.
supersheep:
This strikes me funny too. Wouldn't it make much more sense to simply search for keywords? If I remember correctly, the Iranians have some good government tech-folk, and they probably have ways around this easily, I'd think.
KharBevNor:
It would make more sense as a gesture of solidarity. "We are all Iranians" etc.
Although on another level that might also be crass, who knows. At the end of the day we probably have to accept that there is little we in the outside world can do as individuals right now.
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