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Twitter Revolution?

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Twitter Revolution?

Published: Wed, 17 Jun 2009

Description: How new technology is changing the face of some of the world's most oppressive regimes

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" Live in London now the State Department correspondent James Rosen who has a story on how new technology. It's really changing the face of some of the world's most oppressive regimes will change. But good evening from millennia we have been hearing that the pen is mightier than the sword. Today in Iran these useful protesters he organizers aspiring revolutionaries all learning that he celebrated social networking tools are like all new technologies. Well double edged sword."

" With software that is so 1990. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on can be made to appear utterly terrified. Thanks to the satirical minded folks at the international society for human rights. By a mouse that doesn't even squeak. Yet the threat posed by new digital media to authoritarian regime is no laughing matter to the one in Tehran. Which has -- to shut down Twitter and similar platforms and failing that to coop them so far with little success. Both China and Iran are trying to block. Information sources to control the message and both or are being shown as being largely ineffective in doing so the Chinese Government has abruptly reversed its recent demand that all computers sold their after July 1 carry a controversial Internet filtering software. That would not work here in the United States. High school student could have gotten around at the US government clearly recognize the role new media could play in Iran as a State Department official on Monday prevailed on Twitter to delay maintenance work that would have hindered the protests."

" I wouldn't know what Twitter from a reader but. Very important. And I think keeping that -- line of communications open is an important. Expression. The right to work. I speak out."

" The Ayatollah Ali -- villain in the cyber morality play unfolding in Tehran. Maybe hipper and more wired than secretary Clinton as he reportedly tweaks from time to turn."

" In fact Twitter is a tool allows all the running and to communicate."

" Indeed for those envisioning a brave new world in which repressive governments are brought to their knees in real time -- virtual freedom fighters armed with PDAs laptops and cellphones. Here's the glitch. Only some of the tweaks in between each one can follow along twitters Tehran hash -- are really coming from Tehran and not say Tallahassee. And of those only somewhat from activist not how activists employed by the regime. The information we're getting is actually very limited from my -- reportedly. It is all people in the US talking about what's going on over."

" There. As fast as the Iranian regime can erect barriers to the Internet web sites and SMS text networks over which tweaks or disseminated. Outside parties -- sympathetic to the protesters are creating proxy servers meaning that this battle in Iran is comprised both of street warfare. And of cyber warfare Brett Anderson -- that."

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