Belatedly, my latest project at Bloomberg: a narrative of how the Iranian authorities have steadily improved their ability to censor the internet. The latest turn of the wheel: a shift from blacklisting to whitelisting, pushing users onto a heavily-controlled local intranet. (With Patrick Sykes).
bloomberg.com
How Iran Built Its System of Internet Censorship
After decades of battling VPNs and other workarounds, Tehran has built a system that keeps most citizens on a controlled national network while giving elites privileged access to the global internet.