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U.S. State Department speaks to Twitter over Iran

[The reason Twitter got to delay it’s maintenance today][link] was apparently in large part due to Gov’t intervention.

[link]: http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSWBT01137420090616 “U.S. State Department speaks to Twitter over Iran | Industries | Technology, Media & Telecommunications | Reuters”

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“Don’t call what happened in Iran last week an election”

[Hitchens on the #iranelection][link]. From an Iranian compatriot:

>I went to the last major Ahmadinejad rally and got the whiff of what I imagine fascism to have been all about. Lots of splotchy boys who can’t get a date are given guns and told they’re special.

[link]: http://www.slate.com/id/2220520/ “Don’t call what happened in Iran last week an election. – By Christopher Hitchens – Slate Magazine”