YouTube needs to change their ratings system: Via Page F30.

Many online have been working very hard to bring news of Iran and the events after the election, and one of those methods is to upload and spread news of videos of the protests and other related events. One nearly effortless way to promote a video is to give it a high rating which may result in it making this list for example.

At first glance, the ratings system seems pretty straightforward: videos go from awesome to pretty cool, to worth watching, then nothing special, and finally poor.

There's a problem with this though - take a video like this one. It's a somewhat grainy video called Basij Militia driving truck through the Iranian protesters". It's definitely a video that the world needs to see, but it just doesn't feel right to give the video an Awesome! rating. There's nothing awesome about a truck being driven into protesters, and the image quality is not awesome; nevertheless, it's a video that needs to be promoted.

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Translation Initiative for Iranian Protesters (TIIP).

The Translation Initiative for Iranian Protesters (TIIP) is an ad hoc initiative to produce free, publication-ready translations and high-quality interpretations of the written and spoken communication streaming out of Iran in the Farsi (Persian) language in the form of e-mails, YouTube videos, Facebook entries, press releases, etc. We leverage volunteer translators, interpreters, linguists, bilinguals, and technical and administrative support personnel to achieve these goals. Our approach is similar to crowdsourcing, but with greater emphasis on the use of professional translators, writers, and editors. Our platform is the wiki. We make liberal use of social media such as Twitter and Facebook to communicate and to attract attention to our initiative.

Language Pairs

At the present time, we are focusing our efforts on translating Farsi text into English, but as we gain recognition we will add additional target languages.
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Iranians find ways to bypass Net censors: Via Politics and Law - CNET News.

Some of the online restrictions appeared around the time of the election: that's when Facebook, BBC English (BBC Persia was already blocked), Technorati.com, and YouTube were added to the verboten-in-Iran list. One report says that YouTube's traffic from Iran has dropped by 90 percent in the last few days, and another says that Yahoo Messenger was blocked early Wednesday. Unconfirmed reports from Iran say Twitter.com is also blocked.

One way around the government's online blockades is to find the electronic equivalent of a detour, which involves using something known as a proxy server.

Here's how it works:
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