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Originally Published June 23, 2009; Last Updated and Republished August 14, 2009:

The open-source community to assist Iranians with their Internet communications in a heavily government censored, filtered, blocked, and monitored environment—initially adding bandwidth, proxy servers, and anonymizers.

Res:

• NedaNet¹ Resource Page

Web:

• UPDATED 08/14/2009 Reuters, U.S. tests technology to break foreign Web censorship.

  Formatting an RSS feed into emails is powerful—even more so when combined with tools for formatting WebPages (sites) into RSS feeds.

  Point your friendly search engine to "rss2email" and "html2rss" for additional information.

• UPDATED 07/09/2009 RNW, Don't sell web filters to Iran, parties say.

  The Dutch lower house resolved that it should urge the EU to withhold sale of filter software to Iran.

  Additionally it urged companies Nokia and Siemens to donate profits made filtering Iran Internet information and communications to efforts aimed at ensuring unfiltered access to the Internet information and communications.

  Not a bad principle for all companies (e.g. Google², Cisco, Microsoft et al.) supplying Internet and communication filtering software or services to governments to adhere to.

  • UPDATED 07/18/2009 Washington Times, EXCLUSIVE: Siemens risks losses due to Iran ties.

    It seems when basic human rights lack parity with economic rights the burden eventually matches or exceeds the benefits, albeit with a still poorly understood relationship and an undefined lag time.

    The intrepid Iranian protesters have done nothing over past month if not dispel a myth that human beings aspire to different sets of basic human rights?

    Siemens and Nokia (and others) must help the Iranians realize their aspirations and must do nothing to impede or thwart those aspirations. For example advance their economic interests at the expense of the Iranians' basic human rights—there seems to be a message here for all thug, dictator, and goon regimes and their patron-benefactor supporters.

• WSJ, Neda Soltan’s Death Inspires New Site

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1. Respected open-source advocate and guru Eric Raymond has graciously volunteered as front-office spokesperson for the nascent NedaNet project.

2. There are data indicating Google is supporting efforts to ensure friction free Internet information flows worldwide.