Honestly, guys, I wouldn't read too much into all of this. If you've been around "the internet" for very long, you should have a pretty finely tuned "bullshit

Honestly, guys, I wouldn't read too much into all of this. If you've been around "the internet" for very long, you should have a pretty finely tuned "bullshit detector". There were a lot of people who were running proxies, and TOR exit nodes, and VPN endpoints, and FTP dumps, and soforth, and those services absolutely were used to smuggle photos and videos out of the country while things were being filtered. Behind all of the "make your twitter pic green, set your timezone to tehran!" etc. etc. there was really amazingly good reporting happening via the internet. Did most of it happen via twitter? Probably not, but it certainly did help things spread when they did happen...granted, if you're just watching a hashtag that anybody can tag things with...then you're probably not getting much legitimate news. Use your mind when reading the news, this shouldn't be anything new.