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Cartoon: Tweet Liberty

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Jun 22, 2009

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The aftermath of Iran's election last week was startling. From the eyebrow-raising lopsided vote tally, to the surge of protesters into the streets, to the pivotal role of tools like mobile phones, Twitter, and YouTube in getting the story out, it's hard to say what's been the most remarkable.

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Those of us outside of Iran who would like to see a freer, more open regime in Tehran have found our urge to do something in support of the protesters to be a powerful one. And for a lot of Twitizens, who know they'd like to do something but have no idea just what would help, that something has been to make their avatars green. (You may recall the Orange Revolution in Ukraine back in 2004, when many sympathetic bloggers turned their sites orange.) For others, more concrete action has been the order of the day: for example, setting up proxy servers to help Iranians tell their stories free of censorship and intimidation, or more shadowy activity like denial-of-service attacks.

Is it doing any good? Do our efforts, symbolic or concrete, have any impact? We don't reall

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