Seems that whatever happens in any corner of the world at any time there is some person taking pictures with a mobile phone. Recently pictures of police in the UK brutally beating and repeatedly tazing a fellow on the ground at 3AM were shown on television news. Now we are getting pictures and news of peaceful protestors being beaten and shot by police and Basiji thugs in Iran. The authorities are trying desperately to stop the spread of information by restricting foreign journalists to their hotels, blocking internet access, disconnecting mobile phone and sms services but people are still finding a way of getting news and pictures out through Twitter, Facebook and by going through computers in other countries. Recently pictures of the successful landing of a passenger airliner on Hudson river was being seen all over the world even while the television giants were still trying to get their helicopters to fly. Suddenly there is hope that technology will bring an end to dictatorship unless your people are destitute and cannot afford computers as in Zimbabwe and North Korea. China seems to be the only exception. Its people see their children crushed by tanks, killed by collapse of sandy buidings in an earthquake or die of melamine poisoning but its people still defend the brutal thugs ruling the country. Perhaps when you are human cockroaches eating everything that lives you start to hide in dark crevices at the sight of any light. After all technology is light.