Activists vow to defeat Iran’s Internet censorship

Keep Iran connected, despite any censorship efforts — that’s the goal of a small group of activists that met a few days ago in Seattle as part of the Tor developer meeting.

Developers of the Tor Project meet every six months to work on the future of the anti-censorship tool, but last week’s meeting couldn’t have been more timely: Iran is holding parliamentary elections, and the country’s government is trying to prevent a repeat of the widespread demonstrations following the disputed presidential election in 2009. Part of this effort is a renewed clamp-down on Internet access — which was a wake-up call for anti-censorship activists.