"I launched Tehran Bureau to provide a platform for young Iranians and their stories, and to bring unvarnished and uncensored reports to readers around the world".
"As a result, it would be dangerous, liberal, uncensored, and it would be a great place for freedom fighters, democratic dissidents and whistleblowers to go, as well as criminals, child pornographers and terrorists.
As I tried to explore the thought processes of Aphex Twin's Richard D James (a daunting task in itself), I became sidetracked by a much wider issue, which involves a growing scatter of artists who are exploring the outer limits of the internet for inspiration, adventure, anonymity and rebellion, in search of a truer and uncensored reflection of the society we live in.
It was uncensored and did not appear to contain sensitive information.
By the by, he has emphasised a need to speed up Iran's internet connections which have been slowed down in the run-up to the election to make it harder to visit uncensored foreign news sites.The second bigwig in the conservative coalition is Ali Akbar Velayati, foreign minister during Iran's long war with Iraq (1980-88) and a long-serving foreign-policy adviser to the supreme leader.
After prolonged, uncensored exposure to these brazen personalities, it's easy to feel invested in and connected to these musicians.
In the face of much criticism from Western human-rights advocates, Google justified its decision to set up Google.cn in 2006 by pointing out that China often blocked its uncensored engine, Google.com.com
Uncensored independent dailies would do much to transform the political climate.For now, though, Myanmar's journalists will continue to tread cautiously, out of habit and instinct.
Although the party's instinct will be to tighten controls on media freedom in the build-up to the games, the spread of advanced information technologies will make it ever harder to stem the tide of uncensored information.A successful Olympics will give the party a bit more of a swagger, but success will depend on curbing its instinct to lash out at its critics.
They also have a compelling subject, showing the demonstrations and running uncensored call-in programmes.
Noting that the internet in Malaysia has always been uncensored, Mr Najib announced a "review" of print censorship laws.
