YouTube should let Iranians speak
Guardian / Negar Esfandiary
17-Aug-2010 (3 comments)

For the many active Iranian YouTube members, this was a sensational opportunity to finally contribute, participate and share in a non-political world community project through a medium they knew well. After all, it was the 2009 elections that inspired citizen filming in Iran, with YouTube serving as the main channel to the outside world. Clips of the brutality on the streets of Iran catapulted YouTube into newsrooms and signalled it as a potent news source.

It came as a slap in the face, then, to read the FAQ on the Life in a Day website: "Anyone over 13 years old can submit footage, except for residents and nationals of Iran, Syria, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea and Myanmar (Burma), and/or any other persons and entities restricted by US export controls and sanctions programmes." The "story of a single day on earth … One world, 24 hours, 6 billion perspectives" is actively boycotting 1.5 billion of the 6 billion perspectives it pursues.

Wouldn't it be great to have included these countries – to have seen something of daily life rather than the usual imagery? Surely that would have been more in step with the spirit of the project, especially given that most of the submissions will naturally end up on the cutting-room floor. Instead, this decision is meanspirited, hasty and compromises the integrity of a project intended to be truly universal, when it is in fact not open to all.

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documentary project denied to Iranians

by Q on Tue Aug 17, 2010 12:08 PM PDT

These sanctions are like whack-a-mole. They hurt Iranians and maybe a select few can get reversed only after enormous political activism. Once again, we have to thank Sanctions supporters like FredCo for his solid service to the hardliner government in Iran.


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Hypocrites and their distractions

by thexmaster on Wed Aug 18, 2010 06:04 PM PDT

I mean, i'm sure it's pretty clear to even the most dimwitted IRI goon that this evil regime already blocked youtube in 2006, then again in 2009 along with blocking 100's of other sites including this one.  But who is to blame?  Youtube, and the US!  Youtube allowed iranians to show the world the true filth that is the IRI, and the US allocated $50 million the Victims of Iranian Censorship Act which is already mentioned in the article.  Yet, there seems to be this fake uproar in regards to this Life in a Day amongs these ultraliberals. 

 

Let's continue with Negar's article:

One world, 24 hours, 6 billion perspectives" is actively boycotting 1.5 billion of the 6 billion perspectives it pursues.

Wait...what?  Now muslims are not allowed to participate?  I thought it was just a couple of countries?  This lady is simply confused.

 

 


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These sanctions

by IranMilitaryForum.net on Wed Aug 18, 2010 05:06 PM PDT

These sanctions are like whack-a-mole. They hurt Iranians and maybe a
select few can get reversed only after enormous political activism.
Once again, we have to thank Sanctions supporters like FredCo for his
solid service to the hardliner government in Iran.

These sanctions are meant to hit the average Iranians as their main target. 


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