Iranians warned not to use sites such as Twitter
Like many, I have been following the unrest in Iran by Twitter… It has been quite a phenomenon. However, on an ominous note:
Telegraph.co.uk: “Iranians warned not to use sites such as Twitter” By Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent 17 Jun 2009
Iranians who have been using websites such as Twitter to record every twist and turn of the political crisis faced the threat of state retribution yesterday from the country's feared Revolutionary Guard.
The elite military force issued a statement alleging it had identifed websites run by companies it charged were backed by the US and British secret services.
It warned that it would take action against people stoking "tensions" using new media, such as the micro-blogging website Twitter, which has been a key tool in the dissemination of news at a time of upheaval and censorship.
The Revolutionary Guard, set up in the wake of the 1979 revolution to defend the Islamic Republic from "internal and external" threats has struggled to contain an explosion of news and comment published on websites.
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