Noam Cohen, who has been covering internet issues for The New York Times for the past few years, assesses the role Twitter has played in the old and new media coverage of the election and protests in Iran. Worth a read this morning.
Any country can have problems with its elections. Only in a few do the incumbents kill the citizens over them.
"Only in a few do the
"Only in a few do the incumbents kill the citizens over them."
It depends on what the citizens do. If Americans had taken to the streets in 2004 as the Iranians did (and there was sufficient hijinks in GOP-run Ohio to justify it), would there have been 30-odd deaths?