Communication technology; is political [Iran]

Following on from my post from yesterday highlighting Jamias Cascio’s Video on why technology is political I picked this up from Boing Boing – Five technologies Iran is using to censor the web

While the government’s initial efforts to censor the Internet were blunt and often ineffective, it has started employing more sophisticated tools to thwart dissidents’ attempts to communicate with each other and the outside world. Iranian dissidents are not alone in their struggle, however, as several sympathetic hacker groups have been working to keep them online.

One such group is NedaNet, whose mission is to “help the Iranian people by setting up networks of proxy severs, anonymizers, and any other appropriate technologies that can enable them to communicate and organize.” NedaNet project coordinator Morgan Sennhauser, who has just written a paper detailing the Iranian government’s latest efforts to thwart hackers, says that the government’s actions have been surprisingly robust and have challenged hackers in ways that the Chinese government’s efforts at censorship have not.

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