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U.S. State Department speaks to Twitter over Iran | Industries | Technology, Media & Te... - 3 views

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shared by Madeline Brownstone on 21 Nov 09 - Cached

Twitter and Facebook have been used as a tool by many young people to coordinate protests over the election's outcome.
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The State Department declined to give immediate details of the contact with Twitter, which has been used particularly by young urban Iranians who are disputing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election last Friday.
- Madeline Brownstone on 21 Nov 09
  
  Stakeholders are the protesters in Iran
  
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- Madeline Brownstone on 21 Nov 09
  
  AND, the US State Deparment revealed the stake they had in this communications tool.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">AND, the US State Deparment revealed the stake they had in this communications tool.</div>
  
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Madeline Brownstone on 21 Nov 09

Who would think that the US State Deparment would be interested in Twitter's downtime?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Who would think that the US State Deparment would be interested in Twitter's downtime?</div>

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Iran's Protests: Why Twitter Is the Medium of the Movement - TIME - 4 views

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shared by Olivia M on 19 Oct 10 -

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Mohammad A on 19 Oct 10

In the most recent Iranian elections, the government censored many websites on the Internet in order to prevent news and other information from leaking the country/"classified governmental issues within the election". The Iranian people started using social networks (mainly Twitter) to spread the information of governmental oppression around both nationally and through out the world. After Twitter started blocking such sites, Iranians started using their cellphones as the method of sending out information on the injustices occurring during the election.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">In the most recent Iranian elections, the government censored many websites on the Internet in order to prevent news and other information from leaking the country/"classified governmental issues within the election". The Iranian people started using social networks (mainly Twitter) to spread the information of governmental oppression around both nationally and through out the world. After Twitter started blocking such sites, Iranians started using their cellphones as the method of sending out information on the injustices occurring during the election.</div>

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Yuval S on 21 Oct 10

This is a very interesting article. I find it interesting that Iran is afraid of the word of their government is getting out, so they block one of the most used wrbsites on the internet, I feel as though you could have argued the point that the tweets were not neccesarily the most reliable. As said in the article, "The vast body of information about current events in Iran that circulates on Twitter is chaotic, subjective and totally unverifiable. It's impossible to authenticate sources. It's also not clear who exactly is using Twitter within Iran, especially in English. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the bulk of tweets are coming from "hyphenated" Iranians not actually in the country who are getting the word out to Western observers, rather than from the protesters themselves, who favor other, less public media."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This is a very interesting article. I find it interesting that Iran is afraid of the word of their government is getting out, so they block one of the most used wrbsites on the internet, I feel as though you could have argued the point that the tweets were not neccesarily the most reliable. As said in the article, "The vast body of information about current events in Iran that circulates on Twitter is chaotic, subjective and totally unverifiable. It's impossible to authenticate sources. It's also not clear who exactly is using Twitter within Iran, especially in English. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the bulk of tweets are coming from "hyphenated" Iranians not actually in the country who are getting the word out to Western observers, rather than from the protesters themselves, who favor other, less public media."</div>

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TOPIC: Net Neutrality-Issues of censorship or equality of access and the digital divide - 20 views

On Mohammad post I learned how the people in Iran used Twitter in the Election of the President to bring information out to the rest of the world and organize rallies within the country. This is an...