The revolution will be Googled:
Google and Facebook rushed out Farsi versions of their websites and services today, saying that they were responding to the importance of the web as a communications tool for Iranians during ongoing turmoil in the country.[MORE]
Good for them, but we have to ask; would Google be doing this in China, where they have buckled under regime pressure in the past? Perhaps if Tehran offered Google a huge contract, and then threatened to yank it if they didn’t tow the regime line, they could get the kind of cooperation China is used to.
