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Iranian lawmaker, Ahmad Tavakoli blames [fa] increased Internet censorship in Iran as ‘annoying for people'. He adds it ‘would cost heavy for the establishment'. He believes severe filtering would encourage citizens to use anti-filter and circumvention tools. Several Iranian users have reported in last few days they have had no access to emails including gmail, hotmail and yahoo.
On Twitter, Arab Revolution shares a link to a video allegedly showing a Saudi protester in Qatif getting shot. The video is dated February 9.
The Arab Observer, from Jordan, posts a letter he got from a reader who discovered that her husband was gay.
Jolanare is weary of where the Tunisian revolution is heading to in terms of women's rights [fr]. She writes: ”A young man verbally attacked me because I was wearing red lipstick. He shouted at me : “these are the so-called women of the democracy.” I replied that it is thanks to the democracy he makes fun of that he can open his big mouth.”
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Stories such as this are almost never aired or printed in the mainstream media. The reason is it doesn’t fit their profile of victim vs. aggressor. As a now retired writer/journalist/public relations pro, I spent years begging, pleading, urging media types to run articles that they simply ignored. They also, largely, ignored op-ed pieces, if it didn’t fit into their preconceived notion of what was politically correct. Even The New York Times has gone in this direction. By example, they have yet to give credence to documented information that Hamas fought in civilian clothes, used civilians as human shields, used ambulances as military cover, etc. Just a couple of days ago the UNRWA acknowledged that Israel did not hit a UN school, but I have not seen an article on this in The Times or any other mass media outlet.
here’s another blog post about this story – http://90210tosderot.blogspot.com/