On the one-year anniversary of the election that spawned the Green Movement in Iran:A hard but simple truth--especially when the Internet actually can be controlled.
Twitter cannot stop a bullet.
That's the lesson of what happened last year. There was a lot of romantic outpouring here thinking that Facebook is going to stop the Revolutionary Guards. It doesn't. Thuggery, a determined regime that is oppressive, that will shoot, almost always wins.
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