One Way to Quell Uprisings: Ban Facebook
According to The Media Line, Iran has decided to block a number of websites “perceived as immoral and anti-social”, with YouTube and Facebook being among the blocked sites. Facebook has been the source of uprisings including Colombia where they protested against the FARC as I wrote about earlier this week.
Apparently Iran is looking to protect themselves from internet uprisings and is acting fast to ban five million websites. This appears to only be a delay of the inevitable as “30 percent of the population have access to satellite TV”.
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