It was a decade that defined us all. Clinton dominated the White House, Saturday Night Live was funny and yet the mullet was not. The 1990s were a different time.
Regardless of how the media portrays Iran, the aggressiveness of the regime is much worse than what we see or feel in the West. Phrases from the Quran are written on freeways, buildings and walls by the government. On streets and street corners are numbers of stations, not much larger than a porta-potty, with "Diplomatic Police" written horizontally in big, white, English block letters. Inside each sits an intimidating-looking man wearing a green military suit and holding a large rifle. This all is in the name of instilling fear for the sake of control.
What has the digital age come to when people can't fully control information about themselves that is floating around on the Internet? Many people argue that the value of privacy has depreciated due to this society of open information. This lack of privacy has resulted in a normalized feature of the rising digital culture.