The Ayatollah Comes for the Internet
The almost complete shutdown imposed over the weekend sets a new oppressive benchmark./ Ms. Alimardani is a graduate student at the Oxford Internet Institute./ Authoritarian governments have increasingly sought to use internet disruptions and blockades as weapons to crush dissent. Reports of internet shutdowns have recently come from Hong Kong, Iraq and Indian-controlled Kashmir, where access to the internet has been cut off for more than three months now. , the government imposed a nationwide internet blackout to suppress news of ...
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