Mahmood Enayat

Earlier today, the entire WordPress.com domain got filtered in Iran. It means a large number of Farsi blogs hosted on WordPress are inaccessible in Iran. It is not clear whether this filtering decision will be permanent.  Blogspot.com (Blogger), Google’s blogging platform, was also filtered while ago but the blockage was lifted after a few days. [...]

The 12th of June is the anniversary of the disputed Iranian presidential election.  In an article for Index on Censorship, I revisited the “Twitter Revolution” and pointed out some lessons learned for the future. I argued that It is time to replace the Twitter revolution with small media discourse.