Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 15th Jun 2009 18:14 UTC
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr. All demon spawn from Web 2.0, and we all love to make fun of these websites and the services they provide. However, here in the West, where everything is at arm's length and democracy is something we do not remember fighting for, it's easy to forget that what looks silly and useless to us, can be of the utmost importance somewhere else in the world. Update: I've been informed that the first casualty has fallen at the hands of armed government supporters. Hundreds of thousands of people are now on the streets all over Iran. More updates inside.
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I read somewhere else that Facebook had been blocked, but users were using filter-busting to bypass. I guess when you live in an environment where there is large-scale internet filtering, the knowledge of how to beat it more wide-spread as well. SMS is reported as blocked in the same article.
Found the article:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/15/tehran_two/
(Take with grain of salt, of course!)