After years of trying to emulate China’s and Russia’s censorship and surveillance measures, Iran’s new bill will set a standard for other authoritarian states to follow.
If companies fail to comply with the demands, access to their services would either be throttled or blocked.
The bill would also criminalize production and distribution of censorship circumvention tools like virtual private networks, punishable with up to two years in jail. Iranians heavily rely on such tools to access blocked platforms. The parliament has also aimed to kill online anonymity in the bill, requiring all service providers to implement a “real name” policy—forcing users to sign up with their legal identity. In oppressive environments like Iran, civil society, activists, journalists and marginalized groups heavily rely on online anonymity to evade state persecution. The policy would also be an invasion of all users’ privacy.
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