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From Slaying Dragons To Dictators
tcd004 writes "In a weekend, programmer Austin Heap transformed from an apathetic MMO player to a world class regime-slayer. When word for Iran's rigged election broke over Twitter, Heap decided to dedicate himself to building a better proxy system for people behind Iran's firewall. Heap's creation, Haystack, conceals someone's real online destinations inside a stream of innocuous traffic. You may be browsing an opposition Web site, but to the censors it will appear you are visiting, say, weather.com. Heap tends to hide users in content that is popular in Tehran, sometimes the regime's own government mouthpieces."
You mean that laughably juvenile attempt by US intelligence agencies to pretend to be Iranian citizens by setting up fake Twitter and other social media accounts?
Regime change isn't very effective when you have the Keystone Kops trying to carry it out for you.
The US was stupid to think trying to fabricate faux outrage on social media sites was ever going to accomplish anything. You do get the usual fools who karma whore inane posts 'standing up for democracy'. But those same karma whores have moved on to the next funny Cat video story five minutes later.
The rest of the world sees the massive US military forces completely surrounding Iran.
The rest of the world sees the US supporting and funding terrorist groups killing people inside of Iran.
The rest of the world sees the US supporting Israeli state terror.
I am VERY familiar with how Communists governed -- they were still better than your politicians. I can grant you one thing, they had one ruling party, US has two. They have two ruling parties now -- both are worse than one they had before, and both are better than two you have in power (I mean, United Russia is better than Democrats and Russian Communist Party is better than Republicans, other comparisons are up to debate), so this is hardly relevant.
Of course, if you compare yourself to anything other than Communists or Theocrats, the true extent of your political system's backwardness becomes apparent, so don't even try.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.