Iranian Digital Censorship: A Step Towards Atrocity
With the rise of the digital era emerges the opportunity for governments to manipulate technology and use it as a means of repression. Iran has used various means of censorship to limit citizens’ access to independent media: it has slowed down internet access or “throttling,” caused internet blackouts, nationalized the internet, and more. During the 2025 conflict between Iran and Israel, when more than 90 million Iranians were taken offline , Iran used internet blackouts
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