practical help -- we're all Iranians Now

[northernlights]

This is from the Presidential page, which I know some people don't venture out into.

The Republican Guard searches twitter by location and time zone to find and identify protesters. There's a movement afoot to make it harder for them by changing your twitter settings to location and time zone for Tehran. Here are the instructions on how:

You change your twitter profile.

From Boing Boing:

Help cover the bloggers:
change your twitter settings so that your location is TEHRAN and your time zone is GMT +3.30. Security forces are hunting for bloggers using location and timezone searches. If we all become 'Iranians' it becomes much harder to find them.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/16/cyberwar-guide-for...

Twitter is the main way for Iranians to evade the govt's blocking of communication and news.