Iran: Psiphon + Israeli Newspaper helps + twitter + Global Voices
Psiphon is a media de-sensoring tool developed at Citizen Lab in the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre. It is being used to push forward content banned by the Iranian Government.
The censorship avoidance tool essentially links “trusted members” together with members who have access to content, sending it to those who don’t, all under the authorities’ noses.
And according to the Globe
the cyberrevolution’s epicentre is the microblogging site Twitter
Twitter was going to shut down for maintenance but decided to postpone that work at the request of Washington.
Meanwhile, the HAREETZ an Israeli newspaper is posting the blog content of pro-reformist activists see: Defying Iran censors, a blogger reports from Tehran.
Meanwhile mainstream media giants took the weekend off - Real-Time Criticism of CNN’s Iran Coverage and barely covered the protests. It seem that twitterers (no mom they will not go blind for doing that) were acting as big media watchdogs.
Global Voices is also aggregating Iranian blog content.
Via:
- Globe Article - Iran’s cyber-revolution gets a hand from Canada
- Citizen Lab - Twitter’s Activist Initiation
- Forbes - By accommodating Iranian dissidents the microblogging site has gone from allowing political activity, to courting it.
- Mashable: #CNNfail: Twitter Blasts CNN Over Iran Election
