“Dear God, In 2009 you took my favourite singer Michael Jackson, my favourite actress Farrah Fawcett, my favourite actor Patrick Swayze, my favourite voice Neda. Please don’t forget my favourite politician Ahmadinejad and favourite dictator Khamenei [Iran's supreme leader] in the year 2010. Thank you.” – Message left on hacked Ahmadinijad website

The Iranian govenment has banned citizens from contact with 60 organizations (on top of previously banned organizations), including Human Rights Watch, the BBC, Voice of America, Radio Farda, Wilton Park, Yale University, the Brookings Institution and the George Soros Open Society Foundation. We haven’t seen the entire list yet, but the fact that the Committee hasn’t appeared in media reports about it indicates that we didn’t make the cut this year. Our new year resolution for 2010 is to make the next round of censorhip picks.

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” РMahtma Gandhi

via The Guardian.