The Iranian youth are a crafty bunch.if there is a back alley way to get what they want they will find it and use it. No matter the crackdown, short of all technology being confiscated and full internet shut down they wont stop. the connection to the outside world means too much to lose.
With that being said, technology has and will continue to up the ante on how politics are handled, how policies are discussed. Technology allows the youth a way to vent , set up meetings and protests , and get the word out. its faster and more efficient than plain word of mouth. Also, with how back alley it has to be its less traceable. it can and will change everything about politics and how they are handled.
Looking at how restricted the internet is makes me glad to be where i am. I can sit at my laptop and babble about whatever i want. Give my opinion and all of that , and its ok. i dont have to use a proxy server i dont have to do this post from an anonymous internet cafe. my personal freedoms mean quite a lot to me, and quite frankly i would be ready to put up a fight to defend them. in Iran , they just have a more passive way to fight. internet use in America is so much more free than there, but they seem to use it not only to just chat , make friends and post about their life. they use it to be active to fight back.
i say: more power to them
I agree! If I was not allowed freedom on the internet I would be pretty angry. I think we take our internet freedoms for granted here in the U.S. The governments regulation of the internet in Iran helps me understand the Iranian youths anger at their limited freedom.
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