Just a quick Iran post today. Via
Paul Stott, I came across
Anonymous Iran, a notice board created, apparently, by the folks who brought us Pirate Bay. A lot of the stuff, posted by anonymous folks, is pure rubbish, gossip, panic, conspiracy, etc. Key posts are kept sticky at the top of each section. There are useful sections on
keeping internet anonymity in Iran,
on protest advice, and
on missing persons. And there is a
news section, with a
news feed from the mainstream press and, more important, the Green Brief, Josh Shahryar's summary of carefully selected Twitter feeds. Here is yesterday's
Green Brief, no.15, and here is well-informed blogger
Scott Lucas reporting on how much of the Green Brief can be verified, and here are
Lucas' own reports. To summarise all these reports, the uprising is continuing, violent repression is deepening, reports of mass summary executions are probably false.