Iranians manage to surf the web despite a tide of restrictions, with popular social media sites blocked by the government and other platforms off limits because of U.S. sanctions, mFat writes.
In this Tuesday, July 2, 2019 photo, an Iranian woman works on her cell phone while spending an afternoon on steps outside of a shopping mall in northern Tehran, Iran. Before Iranians can check out the latest offerings on Twitter or YouTube, they must scroll through an array of icons on their smartphones, searching for the best workaround to bypass official censors.
“Every day I struggle for 40 minutes just to get connected to uncensored internet,” Akbari, a 30-year-old software developer, told The Associated Press. “Even after I do, the internet is so slow that I have difficulty even watching a short video.” Khamenei himself has urged the nation’s youth to “smartly use the cyberspace to slap the enemy in the mouth,” and pro-government accounts have proliferated on Twitter and Instagram.
“Cyberspace is controlled by foreigners,” said Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahhedi Kermani, a hard-line cleric who leads Friday prayers in Tehran. “They want to make the people pessimistic about the government.” “The number of users has grown at a much faster rate than the speed of the country’s internet,” said Danial Behzadi, an information technology expert. “In general, the internet in Iran is relatively slow, expensive and has poor neutrality.”
Akbari recalls having to purchase a new keyboard for her laptop. When Amazon refused to send it to Iran, she asked a relative to buy one in Dubai.
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