Beware technology in fervouring dissent in Iran

The surprise isn't that technology has given protesters a new voice. It's that, despite all the tech, they've been effectively silenced.

writes Farhad Manjoo over at Slate magazine.

He sees the technolgy as assisting the regime in Tehran

In many ways, modern communication tools are easier to suppress than organizing methods of the past

adding that

Through "deep packet inspection," the regime achieves omniscience—it has the technical capability to monitor every e-mail, tweet, blog post, and possibly even every phone call placed in Iran.