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Iran ‘throttling’ internet to limit protest footage: activists
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Iran ‘throttling’ internet to limit protest footage: activists

[ad_1] Iran is imposing severe restrictions on access to the internet, in a bid to limit the sharing of footage of protests . Iran is imposing increasingly severe restrictions on access to the internet, albeit still short of a total shutdown, in an apparent bid to limit the sharing of footage of protests which have erupted nationwide, activists charge.Campaigners and Persian-language television channels outside Iran have noted a reduction in the posting of footage of the protests filmed on mobile phones, almost two weeks into the movement that erupted following the death of Mahsa Amini. The authorities have already restricted access to Instagram and WhatsApp -- until now the last remaining unfiltered social media services -- ...