[x-pubpol] U.S. State Dept. Creates New Online Animation "Behind The Electronic Curtain, " Targeting Iran

[Joly MacFie]

http://techpresident.com/news/22026/us-state-dept-creates-new-online-animation-behind-electronic-curtain-targeting-iran


The State Department on Friday started promoting a new cartoon it created
highlighting Iran's online system of censorship. It started promoting the
video on Twitter in English, Chinese, Farsi and Arabic with the hashtag
#ConnectIran.
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Iran has long filtered the web <http://opennet.net/research/profiles/iran> for
its citizens, but *The Wall Street Journal
*reported<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303717304577279381130395906.html?mod=googlenews_wsj>
mid-March
that Iran's government had stepped up its efforts by creating the "Supreme
Council of Cyberspace," with its own budget and offices. It will be
composed of the country's "heads of intelligence, militia, security and the
powerful Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, as well as media chiefs."

Iran also has, nevertheless, historically had a thriving
blogosphere<http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090619_iran_internet_censorship_sophisticated/>
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