NedaNet

NedaNet is an eponymous and informal alliance of hacktivists, named after Neda Agha-Soltan, the practical purpose of which to provide logistical communications technical support to Iranians at home and abroad (and their sympathizers) to enable the dissemination of uncensored information regarding the 2009 Iranian presidential election and the subsequent protests. The project began with the establishment of networks of proxy servers, anonymizers, and other computer equipment in order to enable the protestors (whom NedaNet refers to as "the revolutionaries") to freely communicate, and hence, organize, via Linux, and MacOS X.
The site is a "jumping-off point" for hackers and others, whatever their nationality, who wish to assist Iranian dissidents and citizenry and, by extention, the wider Iranian diaspora. Eric S. Raymond, the founder of the website, describes its raison d'etre as follows:

“Our mission is to help the Iranian people by setting up networks of proxy servers, anonymizers and any other appropriate technologies that can enable them to communicate and organize — a network beyond the censorship or control of the Iranian regime.”; he has in this capacity, however, received on-line threats., including one death threat which he states he has reported to the FBI and which the agency is taking seriously . Raymond, a long-time science fiction fan, refers to his participation in NedaNet as "... living inside a cyberpunk novel. A libertarian cyberpunk novel."

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