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THIS WAS INSPIRED BY EVENTS IN IRAN

http://www.dailymotion.com/gb/featured/video/x9sby6_censorship-burns-the-books-nobody-r_music?pagination=1:15

As we saw in Moldova, the idea of a “Twitter Revolution” isn’t always borne out by the facts, at least to the extent that the uprising would have not taken place without the tool. At this historic moment in time, it’s fascinating to watch — and participate in — how a political conflict can evolve online, how those outside the immediate sphere of its influence have a role in the chain of events, and all that interest and passion can feed back into the cycle of how events play out.

Gaurav Mishra is quoted in Rebecca Santana’s AP article Tweeting Iran: Elex news in 140 characters or less:

“It’s sometimes difficult to differentiate the hype from the media,” he said. “Just because people are tweeting about something doesn’t mean that there’s actually coordination involved.”

The article also quotes past CFP speaker and program committee member Robin Gross, several local Twitterers.

“When I’m not connected to Twitter it means that I’m disconnected from the world because the state TV doesn’t report many things!” wrote one Twitter user who identifies himself as “hamednz” who communicated with The Associated Press through the e-mail. His profile says he lives in Rasht, a city to the north of Tehran near the Caspian Sea.

Like all the Twitter users in Iran who agreed to be interviewed for this story, hamednz did not want his identity revealed for fear of retribution from government authorities….

“The fact that the government is not able to stop all of the information is really key,” said Robin Gross, executive director of IP Justice, a San Francisco-based digital rights group. “They can only sort of censor in a patchwork way, and censorship by its nature has to be all or nothing.”