Iran Expands ‘Smart Filtering’ Censorship to Include #Twitter, #Facebook and #Instagram

Iran Expands ‘Smart Filtering’ Censorship to Include #Twitter, #Facebook and #Instagram

Iran is expanding its self-termed “smart filtering” of the internet, which allows the Iranian government to censor unwanted content on websites without banning them entirely, reports Reuters.

Iran has long blocked social platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, but these measures are often easily bypassed by tech-savvy Iranian citizens using proxy or virtual servers.

With smart filtering, Iran can lift its blanket ban on these websites and instead filter specific content, which is harder for users to workaround.

“Presently,

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