Two Iranians living in Shanghai have remixed images from Marjane Satrapi’s comic with new dialogue to tell the story of the recent election turmoil in Iran. It’s a beautiful way to propagate the now-familiar aesthetic of her work into explaining the situation now from the Iranian perspective.

[Spread Persepolis via bb]

China within hours of the launch of its controversial mandated spyware software, Green Dam, has opted to postpone. Chalk one up to the mass public outcry and criticisms. Perhaps they underestimated how difficult it would be implementing more forced control amongst a community already teetering with unease.

“I think this is the tipping point between the people rising up and those in power trying to suppress them. The great firewall is overloaded and that is why the authorities are trying to move the focus of control to the desktop. But it has annoyed a lot of people. Not just liberals who want free speech but the young who see it as an intrusion into their personal lives.”

[via Futurismic]