The politics of Facebook in Iran: Recently unblocked, Facebook provides a space for political discourse in Iran - 0 views
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The Islamic Republic of Iran has been and remains one of the world’s harshest censors of the Internet
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There are paradoxes in this issue like other aspects of politics in Iran; the government censoring of the Internet does not follow a systematic pattern and the more famous the blogger the harder it is for the authorities to harass her/him. The recent death of Mirsayafi in the Evin prison - a less known blogger with an obscure blog who insulted the supreme leader - demonstrates these paradoxes well.
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Social networking sites are becoming increasingly popular. Mir Hossein Mousavi, a reformist presidential candidate, is on the twitter.
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