{"id":518,"date":"2009-06-24T18:11:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T01:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briantroy.com\/blog\/?p=518"},"modified":"2009-06-24T18:11:44","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T01:11:44","slug":"on-iran-technology-and-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/24\/on-iran-technology-and-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"On Iran, Technology and Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a reason we value art and those who create it. I could write 3 or 4 hundred words about how technology and Social Media are making it impossible for despots to control the message&#8230; or I could just point you to the<a href=\"http:\/\/justsignal.com\/freeiran\"> justSignal FreeIran site<\/a> and get out of the way and let Peter Himmelman (who I&#8217;m proud to know) use his art to say just about everything that needs to be said.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7Gg6z894JF4&amp;w=425&amp;h=344]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a reason we value art and those who create it. I could write 3 or 4 hundred words about how technology and Social Media are making it impossible for despots to control the message&#8230; or I could just point you to the justSignal FreeIran site and get out of the way and let&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/24\/on-iran-technology-and-social-media\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On Iran, Technology and Social Media<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,28],"tags":[78,167,173,206,258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}