The Proxy Fight for Iranian Democracy

(Blog Post) As an experiment, we geolocated a list of about 2,000 web proxies (unique IP addresses and port numbers) that were shared on Twitter and other web sites over the course of the last week, to see if we could discern patterns in the places that are hosting them. Most of these are no longer reachable from inside Iran, of course, precisely because they were made public. The following map shows the distribution of those proxies worldwide. Full Story »

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Subjects: World, Business, Sci/Tech
Topics: Middle East, Iran, Internet, Technology, Democracy In the Middle East
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Posted by: Posted by Joey Baker - Jun 27, 2009 - 3:12 PM PDT
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Edited by: Joey Baker - Jun 27, 2009 - 3:12 PM PDT

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by Joey Baker - Jun. 27, 2009

Good data visualizations, good background, call to action at the end seems a bit fanatical.

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