The Tweet Heard Around the World: Thwarting Censorship in Iran, One Proxy-Server at a Time

By |2020-01-03T13:33:56-05:00June 17th, 2009|Blog|

The Iranian government, never a proponent of free expression, has ramped up its practice of filtering its citizens’ access to social networking websites following Friday’s election and the ensuing protests.  For instance, the Iranian government has blocked access to Twitter from servers located in Iran. The Iranian government’s efforts, however, have been thwarted by a complicated network of non-Iranian proxy [...]