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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/world/middleeast/23censor.html
Web Pries Lid of Censorship by Iranian Government
[New York Times] Brian Stelter and Brad Stone - Shortly after Neda Agha-Soltan bled her life out on the Tehran pavement, the man whose 40-second video of her death has ricocheted around the world calculated how to evade Iran's censors. He e-mailed the video to a friend who forwarded it to the Voice of America, The Guardian in London and five online friends in Europe, with a message that read, "Please let the world know." One of those friends, an Iranian expatriate in the Netherlands, posted it on Facebook. The video spread almost instantly to YouTube and was televised within hours by CNN, as Agha-Soltan was transformed into an icon of the Iranian protest movement.