Not for a while, anyway. On the left, you see what happens — that and worse — when an entrenched regime feels threatened. Peep this:
Meanwhile, over here:
Today, as global geopolitics is shaken to its core by events in Iran, I turned on cable news this morning, and saw endless ads for a Larry King Jonas Brothers “interview”, Morning Joe yukking it up discussing Kuwaiti massage therapists, a video of a tomato throwing contest on CNN, talk radio blowhard Bill Bennett…and occasionally a phone call from Christiane Amanpour in Tehran. I can’t even bring myself to turn on the network morning programs, I might vomit.Again, huge thanks to Andrew Sullivan. His blog and Nico Pitney's HuffPo blog put the media heavyweights to shame.
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In today's digitally linked global community it becomes ever harder for government repression and censorship. Lessons learned in one part of the world can be almost instantly exported to another.
I heard that followers of Falun Gong in China have been key in helping the Iranians maintain access to key websites via serves of the Global Internet Freedom Consortium.
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