-Gawker
K, it’s settled.
I’m going to walk by the multiplex down the street from my apartment next week and if I see anyone under 30 going to see “Taking Woodstock” I am going to break their kneecaps with a rusty pipe.
No but seriously. Boomers are our enemies and we need to put an end to these cliché-ridden “oooh the 60s” propaganda films. Who’s with me?
Despite depleted phone and internet services, protesters are becoming more inventive in methods of spreading their message.
In days gone by, crushing a revolution was a lot easier. There were no mobile phones to co-ordinate street action or relay what was happening to the outside world. Even more importantly, there wasn’t an internet. Now it is common to hear of “internet” or even “twitter revolutions” - as Andrew Sullivan on the Atlantic has already described the current protests in Iran.
It is precisely for that reason that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears to have – temporarily at least – shut down Facebook, Twitter, mobile phone networks and unsympathetic websites. Nevertheless, Iranians are still managing to feed out information, embracing the technology that the moderate Mir Hossein Mousavi employed during his ultimately unsuccessful election campaign.
