Because Iranian security needs the headache (seriously!)
Mark Shea offers the following suggestion:
If you use twitter, set your location to Tehran & your time zone to GMT +3.30. Iranian security forces are hunting for bloggers using location/timezone searches. The more people at this location, the more of a logjam it creates for forces trying to shut down Iranians’ access to the Internet. Cut & paste & pass it on.
Done and done. Go thou, good Tweep and reader, and do likewise!
Brief background: In the wake of its now obviously fixed election and the massive (read: millions of people in the streets) protests, the Iranian regime has expelled or put under house arrest all foreign journalists, and has also basically denied Internet access to the entire country.
Twitter, however, is a service which can be accessed entirely independent of viable Internet access; it was designed around the concept of mobile phone text messaging, and all one needs to fire off a Tweet is a working phone. Ditto for receiving the Tweets of one’s peers and contacts. So in spite of the fact that their government has attempted to cut them off from the outside world, the revolutionaries in Iran can still communicate to the outside world what is going on within the sealed borders of their home nation.
Naturally, the Iranian regime has been slow to move against Iranian Tweeps (Twitter users), probably because they hadn’t anticipated that the technology (which is, at its core, rather limited if you think about it) would be used in this way. But they are attempting to make up for lost time, it seems. Fortunately, there are millions of other Twitter users in the world; I’m sure we can add to the hassle that Iranian security already faces.
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