Iranians Get Brief Taste of Free Access to Social Media
A customer uses a computer at an internet cafe in Tehran.
A few hours later the sites were blocked again.
The government cited "technical problems" as the reason for the temporary access.
Anchor Aaron Schachter speaks with Zeynep Tufekci, Assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, about the inner workings of Iranian Internet.
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