🎥 A new report by Iran’s Students’ Opinion Polling Center (ISPA) on how long users in Iran spend online has been released. The report was prepared at the request of Iran’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and covers the period from 25 to 31 Khordad 1405. That is, after two wars and a massacre with thousands of victims, and the Islamic Republic’s experience of a complete shutdown of the internet—and, of course, the methods used to suppress the right to free access to the internet.

“Amir Rashidi,” a security researcher and advocate for free internet access, is this week’s guest on the program “Digital Security.” He, while recalling examples of the obstacles the Islamic Republic creates against the right to free access to the internet, emphasizes that the internet situation in Iran has still not returned to the pre-December massacre period and remains in a very critical state. This researcher discusses the issue of the sharp increase in the cost of internet access in Iran and says that, in practice, the policy of the Islamic Republic has been to raise internet prices, but it has not announced it officially.

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