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Showing what to whom, again?

How does it support democracy in Iran, exactly, to add a green overlay to your Twitter avatar? Are we thinking the embattled protestors, while playing with Favrd on their lunch breaks, are going to see our greenified avatars and take heart that a group of well-meaning first world quipsters are down for the cause? I guess, at worst, it’s harmless. But it’s seemingly harmless, at best, too.

There are ways we can actually be effective, if that’s really what we want. Anyone want to set up some proxy servers?

  1. kurafire reblogged this from texburgher and added:
    I can’t easily be involved...any actual action-taking, because hey,
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    I hope my reblogging of this doesn’t appear to be, ahem, smug, but I have to say that texburgher is an exceedingly...
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    You’re right, Essdogg. It’s sheer hyprocrisy for me to come off as critical of people for dressing up their avatars to...
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    Its an easy, safe thing...cause du jour. How about something meaningful, like writing to...
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