Syria Bans the iPhone to Silence Citizen Journalists

[COLGeek]

Seems every phone with a camera would be on this list. Sad. I truly feel for the people of Syria and I look forward to their eventual freedom.

 

[EightyFour]

and another outlet joins in the coordinated effort to demonize syria

 

[ojas]

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It's not Syria, it's their government. And they deserve it, look at what they're doing.

 

[headscratcher]

Siri joke in there somewhere.

 

[danwat1234]

Ok, well then get a cheap pocket camcorder for cheap and start recording and upload to youtube or wherever every night. Syria Syria, you can't stop freedom of speech.

 

[rawful]

Why not? The US government did it.

 

[A Bad Day]

They might as well as ban the internet. That worked out pretty well for Egypt, especially with their credit rating.

 

[Guest]

The camera phone, especially the iPhone, is instrumental in documenting public protests around the world. During the UC Davis pepper spraying scandal, students armed themselves with cell phones and cameras and raced to be the first people to upload their footage online ( http://whoweam.com/landscapes/media-spraying/ ). If Syrians are banned from using the iPhone, the public's knowledge of the event will steeply decline. Citizen journalism, coupled with social media, is ubiquitous in today's society.