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04-28-2014, 05:32 PM
Why the Revolutionary Guard Targeted Iran's Gadget Bloggers
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Danny O'Brien, a long-time privacy and online free speech activist, is the International Director at the digital-rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation (https://www.eff.org) (EFF). You can follow him on Twitter @mala (https://twitter.com/mala).
Narenji ("Orange") was Iran's top website for gadget news, edited daily by a team of tech bloggers who worked from a cramped ****** in the country's city of Kerman. The site was targeted at Iran's growing audience of tech**logy enthusiasts. Like Gizmodo or Engadget in the United States, it had a simple but popular formula: mixed reviews of the latest Android and iPhones, summaries of new Persian-language apps and downloads, as well as the latest Internet memes (such as the ever-popular "An Incredible Painted Portrait of Morgan Freeman Drawn with a Finger on the iPad (http://mashable.com/2013/12/02/morgan-freeman-ipad-fingerpaint/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)"). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/28/how-irans-gadget-bloggers-became-victims-of-the-revolutionary-guard/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Danny O'Brien, a long-time privacy and online free speech activist, is the International Director at the digital-rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation (https://www.eff.org) (EFF). You can follow him on Twitter @mala (https://twitter.com/mala).
Narenji ("Orange") was Iran's top website for gadget news, edited daily by a team of tech bloggers who worked from a cramped ****** in the country's city of Kerman. The site was targeted at Iran's growing audience of tech**logy enthusiasts. Like Gizmodo or Engadget in the United States, it had a simple but popular formula: mixed reviews of the latest Android and iPhones, summaries of new Persian-language apps and downloads, as well as the latest Internet memes (such as the ever-popular "An Incredible Painted Portrait of Morgan Freeman Drawn with a Finger on the iPad (http://mashable.com/2013/12/02/morgan-freeman-ipad-fingerpaint/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)"). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/28/how-irans-gadget-bloggers-became-victims-of-the-revolutionary-guard/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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