Big Brother in Iran

Date June 22, 2009

The Wall Street Journal explains why the networks have slowed to a crawl in the People’s Irrepublic.

A more hopeful POV at the New York Times, which points out that at least Iran has a thriving community of bloggers, many of whom will be able to think of safe ways to route their messages.

This is, of course, as good a time as any to remind everyone to change their Twitter identities so that the are based in Tehran, and are set to Tehran’s time zone.

h/t, WSJ article: the ‘Air. The NYT article, Insty.

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