Iran

It's truly amazing what the protesters of Iran are doing. The government is trying to stone-wall them at every turn and yet they keep coming up with ways to organize and stand defiant in the face of oppression.

With many communication tools cut off by the government, the protesters were faced with certain disorganization. They could not text, they could not email. They were cut off from mass communication. But thanks to a certain micro-blogging site called Twitter, they were still able to organize.

That is the first great thing. The second great event was the international response to the Iranian protester's plight. Twitter users would pass on information to others and inform others to do the same. Some users even changed their location to Tehran so that they could fool Iranian censors and buy the protesters some time.

The biggest victory for the alliance of twitter users, both Iranian and international, was getting Twitter to postpone their scheduled outage. This outage, for maintenance, would have happened at a unfortunate time for Iranians and would have left them without communication in the middle of the day. Twitter, after receiving a massive campaign aimed at postponing the outage, agreed to the campaign and moved the maintenance to 1:30 Tehran time.

It's truly amazing how these things work. There are those who believe that humans are naturally selfish and wicked, but I think that times like these show that man is capable of so much and will not hesitate to help their fellow people.