News of the websites are being blacked out comes a year after the 2011 Iranianprotests, which were filled with death, injuries, and arrests. Iran’s government seems to be ramping up its censorship of popular websites, targeting Google’s encrypted...
The site has done this in the past for events like the Haitian earthquake and the Iranianprotests. YouTube has been flooded with videos from the Egyptian protests and is now collecting them at CitizenTube - Google's news and politics channel, the...
The Iranian election protests of 2009 was a turning point for the public's understanding of the importance of social media and the impact of new web-based communication tools. During the protests that followed the election results, the Iranian...