Nir’s Notes

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The new enemies of the revolution

August 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Iran, Middle East

Caspian Weekly, August 21st, 2009
Another report about torture in Iran just surfaced. This time it was 19-year-old Mohammad K. who was arrested during Iran’s post election unrest and was locked up in the Kahrizak detention facility. All but two of his upper teeth had been knocked out. His nails had been pulled out.
His head had [...]

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Slavery and Freedom on the Internet

June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Freedom and the Internet

By Nir Boms, The Jerusalem Post
Aug. 21, 2007
The Internet – the free and open Web of ideas – has become the new symbol of freedom, or at least one of its more visible prophets. Howard Rheingold, a scholar of the early Internet era, predicted a utopian vision where the “electronic agora” would change the public [...]

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