Comments on: Iranian officials ‘crowd-source' protester identities

By: Open Video Conference – Day 2 « 6 to cut, 4 to sharpen

Open Video Conference – Day 2 « 6 to cut, 4 to sharpen — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:13:24 +0000

[...] He did a great job of pumping energy into the conference with humor and a fine balance of offering the future as both an opportunity and a danger. The onus is on us to decide where it’s going. Part of this is making the language of the net more readable. His example was the famous Star Wars Kid not wanting the viral video of his spectacular ninja skills from circulating. Beyond simply labeling a video with licensing, he postulates that perhaps it would not have been circulated had it had a tag that included a request from the kid to not forward the video to friends. (Though of course, I still felt the urge to link to it above). After all, he’s not mentioned by name in Wikipedia for much the same reason. He proceeds to lay out the issues relating to citizen participation, explaining how a noble experiment in crowdsourcing, like Mechanical Turk, can be manipulated into a Captcha Sweatshop [site]. Perhaps this can be taken to video through a Lifestreaming project where protests in Washington Square Park are filmed by people fulfilling work requests where they receive 5 cents per second as long as their including protester’s faces… Frighteningly, there are already examples of this happening in China, Thailand and now Iran. [...]

By: Khash

Khash — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:41:16 +0000

Here is a way everyone can help the protesters. Email and contact gerdab for the identification and give false names and addresses. This will overwhelm them with information and also discredit they information they get

By: Internet & Democracy Blog » Iranian Blogs Dynamic During Election Protests

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:35:06 +0000

[...] harrowing story lately has been how the Revolutionary Guards have been posting pictures of protesters and asking readers to identify them. Perhaps hearteningly, the Guards’ site for this, [...]

By: Brian H.

Brian H. — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:50:31 +0000

A mob mentality seems to have been forced upon the people. This is possibly the reason this “identification” process has been taken.

By: Abraham Sadegh

Abraham Sadegh — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:00:20 +0000

The present regime in Iran is neither an Islamic nor a Republic one. It is now the worst possible military dictatorship imaginable because it also uses God for its own satanic purposes.

There is nothing more disconcerting than to see one’s native land degenerate to such a hell.

The past weeks, however, signify the beginning of the end for the present regime and hopefully a silver lining for that which will follow.

By: DM

DM — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:15:27 +0000

The social network — a repository for fully-realized data treasures and precisely tagged-photos — represents a highly-coveted law enforcement resource.

Once facial recognition software advances slightly, the Iranian government wouldn’t even have to seek these individuals’ identities. They could just look on Facebook.