Millions of Iranians scramble to find smarter tools to circumvent new government censorship. But you need to already possess smarter tools to download new smarter tools. Iranian Catch-22. But Iranians already got Ph.D’s in circumventing barriers.
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Here in Mashhad, I’m subject to the rulers of Iran. Their wish is forcing me to remember the analog world.
And for that, well, I’m thankful.
MASHHAD, Iran, Jan 29, 2015 – To an outsider, visiting an IT seminar in Iran might seem like a bizarre mix of tradition, blatant advertising and emotional calls to stop government stifling of the Internet. Like any official Iranian event, the one-day seminar at Mashhad’s Islamic Azad University, began with the obligatory Koran recitation and..