...emrooz...

If you read regularly Iranian blogs, you may have noticed many of them changing their names to "emrooz", either in English script (like mine) or the Farsi script. This is a symbolic gesture as part of a protest against media and internet censorship in Iran. For you anglophones, "emrooz" means 'today', and is the name of a popular reformist newspaper whose website is repeatedly under attack by government censors.

BBC covers the protest today and mentions the efforts of Hoder to this end. Hoder and others are constantly making efforts to keep information in the public eye and to get around the blatant censorship imposed by the Iranian government.

I assume they are trying to justify their censorship on the usual grounds. Swearing against the regime, insulting the pillars of Islam.. and oh yes, daring to have fun. *sigh*.