Even before his surprise win in the 2013 Iranian presidential campaign, Hassan Rouhani had given indications that, if elected, he intended to improve Internet conditions in Iran. It wasn’t only Rouhani and his supporters’ enthusiastic use of social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter, which the web-savvy candidate had mastered much better than his presidential rivals. There was something in the forcefulness of the way he criticized cyber-filtering and Iran’s often low Internet speeds. The Islamic Republic claims that it heavily regulates the Internet because of the fear of cyber attacks, as well as a means of maintaining public order and morality. In an interview with Chehelcheragh Magazine, […]
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