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Maybe sometimes a bit difficult to understand the scope of Web 2.0 to ike difficult to see the great power they have their tools as media and communication channels ng. But the situation we are living these days after Iran's presidential election shows a bit to where you can get with these web 2.0 tools. Allegations of what happens in the streets of Tehran do not stop coming to different social networks and online communities. Powered by cibersimpatizantes opponents, places like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr are currently the areas of m ayor freedom of expression beyond the government's efforts Iran to cut off roads leading Internet and mobile telephony. Through photos and videos that are updated by the minute, the world is learning what happens in China before he to erratic presidential elections that allowed Ahmadinejad's presidential term.

The atmosphere was heated after the election when the results were announced. Immediately hundreds of people protested in the streets, charging that there was fraud, but the situation worsened when the same Council of Guardians, the highest electoral authority in the country, admitted that there were irregularities in the vote. The agency announced that there were more votes than voters and citizens came out en masse opponents to the streets to march against the government. However, the main catalyst for the worse scenario occurred when the arrests began yl to paramilitary groups repression against opposition rallies of citizens who reported fraud at the polls.

information remains scarce and the media remain under strict government control over all what they publish. The Government issued an order limiting the work or journalistic impossible to take pictures and shoot video of the mass marches. In this situation, were the citizens who took the initiative and became the see many genuine communicators, showing the violent events in Teheran. Prompted bans Iranian citizens write posts, take photos and video of the event and then post them on social networking sites and portals. The world learned the details via You Tube, Facebook and Twitter.

I "tweeted"
In recent days, Twitter has become the main channel to inform and disseminate these events in Iran. This system microblogging 140 words had the lead role as more important because it was the most effective tool when it comes to telling what happened thanks to a service accessible via any mobile phone.

If that happens can not be shown on television at least can be "twitter" wrote a user of Twitter l counterbore "kaplanmyrth." In this way users Internet government opponents began to circumvent the censorship to show what happens and not said in the media. To avoid being captured different users alia on the Web were establishing "proxy servers", that is, computers with Internet connection are used by people inside Iran but that could bypass the embargo imposed by the Government. The proxy is a service running on a computer that allows other computers to connect to it, and access to other third parties. So the Iranians are providing users a lot of "proxies" that can not be tracked and that information can flow freely without be censored. Over the last week, Twitter users have steadily changed the location and time positions more difficult for authorities to find those that truly deliver a message from Iran. In addition the move was also backed by Iranian citizens living abroad.

Iran09 twitter or :
"I confirm that there is a season Basij (Islamic militia) around the square, and people who shoot from the roof" . # Iranelection "

Jadi tweeted :
"People are still joining the demonstration. Chanting "Mousavi! Mousavi! Recover my vote! "# IranElection

YouTube also had a key role so they can see the images of protests and, thus, became a projection room in which cibermilitantes opponents rose videos captured by phones and digital cameras showing the protests that did not contain the mass media.



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When seeking to control the uncontrollable
With the strong control the media in Iran, the government of President Ahmadinejad walked on a close monitoring of Iranian surveillance to sites identified as "problem" that express opinions and voices that are considered "anti" "Obscene" and even "anti-revolutionary." The continued persecution of dissenting voices on sites has become or not the main objectives of Ahmadinejad sees as an area of \u200b\u200bcontrol, unruly and dangerous. But the Internet seems to be a sea too big to try to silence all voices and is almost ridiculous to try to control everything that is "talking" on the Web. Monitor all online activities is obviously a task that overcomes and information filters through spaces created by the citizens themselves.

In today's world nothing is the same as they are often referred to the benefits of new technologies is necessary to mention the opportunity they provided to communities to count, report or show their stories. Web 2.0 allowed this kind of "democratization" of the broadcast of messages where each person can be a "correspondent" rising to the Internet their texts, their videos through various tools.

Thus, the amount of information produced by the Iranian users overwhelmed any intention of censure and exposed all the events that "do not want to show." The fact is, so far, the most exemplary of the real power is Web 2.0 and shows its conceptualization in the cyber interactivity produced from the different channels used, such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, and illustrates his philosophy under the idea of \u200b\u200bcollective participation. "

Photos 2 and 3 via AFP