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  • Rated by mad-toilet on Jul 08, 1:57pm

    Helping a revolution via twitter - are we really this disconnected from reality and what real revolution is about that we honestly can dilute ourselves into believing what is going on in twitter land is really going to matter 2 cents in the grand spectrum of things that happen in Iran. The reality is that the vast majority of those that are directly involved in the movement that is occurring in Iran are doing so from, for now, much less publicly visible areas, because of the threat of reprisal from a government that once considered giving the death penalty to blogging dissidents.Don't get me wrong, it's nice to get information both passed around within Iran and out of Iran about what is going on, but most of the stuff that is coming from twitter is completely unverifiable, and being passed along by Iranians that are outside of the country, getting their own information from those within the country, making it third party information, at best. Some of it has probably been passed around much more than that before hitting twitter. Don't blow up into delusions of grandeur people... what people are doing on the outside of this conflict amounts to a pile of shit next to what those that are risking there lives within the country are doing on a second by second basis - don't overplay your place in this, because at the end of the day you aren't risking anything, and they are risking everything to change the world and country they live in.It is also worth saying that this really has the flavor, in many ways, of a civil rights movement, not a full out revolution as it has been labeled, so that is something else to consider. Making this seem bigger than it might be is only making the situation more tense than it probably should be. All indications are that the protestors are moving to legal redress to start sorting this out, meaning they are trying to work within the framework to fundamentally change the framework, as did the civil rights movement in the US.The bottomline here is this - people like to pretend like they had their hand in history, but the reality is that the real battle will be fought by the people of Iran in the streets, within their neighborhoods, against their government, government supporters and, unfortunately, even against their own friends and family. Some of these fights will be relatively peaceful movements of activism and legal maneuvering, some will (unfortunately) be bloody, and some may unfortunately be downright devastating to human life if the issue re-escalates, but none of these fights will give one tenth of a shit about what happened on twitter that day. Whatever this revolution amounts to, if anything at all, will occur on the ground in Iran, not in cyberspace.

  • Rated by igeldard on Jun 21, 11:22am

    Yishay sez, "The road to hell is paved with the best intentions (including mine). Learn how to actually help the protesters and not the gov't in Iran."

  • Rated by stevedtrm on Jun 18, 4:06am

    How the hell do we know if the US government mass murderers are behind these election protests or not? and if they are, why should we even think about helping the protesters? we don't know whats going on over there, and we shouldnt pretend to. Further, unless we can be sure that the Iranian protesters are in a true struggle for independence, we shouldnt be involving ourselves with the latest potential CIA coup. They did it in Ukraine, they did it in Georgia. I dont like the look of these protests. and 7 deaths or even 700 deaths is absolutely nothing compared to the widespread mssacres in Iraq confirmed by the amount of US ordinance dropped and Lancet medical reports. How many police have died or been injured? Stop supporting USA CIA terrorism abroad, people.

  • Rated by saboma on Jun 17, 5:56pm

    Extremely important information on helping the revolution in Iran if you plan to use twitter to do so. Learn how to actually help the protesters and not the government in Iran with these suggestions.

  • Rated by Babs05 on Jun 16, 12:33pm

    From the page: "Cyberwar guide for Iran elections"

  • Rated by tigerbw on Jun 16, 10:00am

    From the page: "The purpose of this guide is to help you participate constructively in the Iranian election protests through Twitter. "

  • Rated by sarahlee on Jun 16, 8:13am

    From the page: "The purpose of this guide is to help you participate constructively in the Iranian election protests through Twitter. "

  • Rated by griguthul on Jun 16, 5:54am

    Very important information if you plan on helping the revolution in Iran via twitter.