More than 85 million people live in Iran, with some 84% of residents having access to the internet. To be sure, Iranian internet users are no strangers to internet shutdowns. “If Iran has segmented off its residential internet access from the rest of the world, but its servers located within the country can still access both Iranian residential IPs as well as the outside internet, then setting up servers within the country to relay traffic should work,” Bill Budington, senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told TechCrunch.
Currently, some 200 people are using servers run by the group of activists who devised the method that method is now posted on GitHub, and the group has not tracked how many others might be using it, too. Most recently, a group of activists has come up with a new approach that involves Tor servers inside Iran itself, and engaging the tech community outside the country.Īs that group looks to bring on more participation, its approach - using servers inside the country as a sort of “Trojan Horse for internet access” - is gaining endorsement from the free-speech community at large. Now, groups are mobilizing to scale those growing walls.
Previously unheard-of acts, such as the destruction of pictures of Iran’s Supreme Leader or women removing their hijabs, were spread by smartphone video.īut then the government cracked down on internet access WhatsApp, Signal, Viber, Skype and Instagram were blocked. As protesters flooded the streets of Iran in September after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini - a 22-year-old woman who was arrested for not wearing her hijab in accordance with the country’s strict dress code for women - videos and images of the protests spread online inside the country.
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