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.

I took part in a BBC College of Journalism seminar to mark World Press Freedom Day.  The debate focused on the impact of the internet and global online political reporting on democracy. I looked specifically at the limitations that journalists and bloggers are facing in Iran:

On Invite of International Media Supprt (IMS), the main Danish media development NGO, I attended a debate on Social media and democracy in closed societies and challenged some widely accepted assumptions, including the “Twitter Revolution”. Interestingly, Information, a Danish daily, choose a title for my interview, that Google translates it to “Twitter Revolution was a Duck”!