Tech-savvy Iranian youth take aim at Ahmadinejad
Ali Jahanshahi, a young, tech-savvy British-Iranian, quit his job selling computers to come to New York with the ambitious goal of ousting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
More than just protesting Ahmadinejad’s presence at the U.N. General Assembly this week, Jahanshahi said he came to trade know-how with other young Iranians who are using Internet “hacktivism” to send messages, videos and information to opposition sympathizers in Iran.
“Iran’s government tries to keep protesters from organizing online but we use tools to stay ahead of them,” Jahanshahi, 20, said at a protest outside the United Nations.
“We post videos, tweet messages and set up sites to help people in Iran organize.”
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