Faran med flaskhalsar på Internet

...är att en regim kan styra allt informationsflöde ur ett land. Det verkar som om Irans regim kan styra väldigt mycket av vad som kommer ut eftersom i stort all trafik ur landet passerar en punkt som de kan styra och filtrera. Lärdomen av detta är att ha redundanta nät med stor geografisk spriding, och att man måste vara vaksamma när någon försöker centralisera.

We've seen the effects of this control over the past couple days. To be sure, a few harrowing pictures and videos have filtered through Iran's closed net. But they're the exceptions; much of what's happened since the start of the week went undocumented. As the Lede points out, many of the clips now being posted to YouTube were first published last week, before Iran shut down its connections with the outside world. In the absence of fresh videos coming out of the country, people have been attaching new dates to old clips in order to stoke new outrage over the security crackdown.

Läs mer: How the Internet helps Iran silence activists. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine