from HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 09 Feb 14:56
https://sh.itjust.works/post/55031743
Iran’s architecture of internet control is built on technologies from China, according to an analysis published by a British human rights organisation.
The report by Article 19 says the technologies include facial recognition tools used on Uyghurs in western China and a Chinese alternative to the US-based GPS system, BeiDou.
The report outlines the policies and imported hardware behind the growth of Iran’s fine-tuned censorship regime, which allowed authorities to almost entirely cut off its 93 million people from the global internet during the height of January’s anti-government protests.
The internet blackout has helped to obscure grave human rights violations, including mass killings. The death toll from the protests is still being reckoned.
Iran’s internet is still not back to where it was. Rather, a patchy censorship regime appears to be allowing users sporadic access. The capabilities that underpin this blackout are the culmination of a decades-long project, one that involved the collaboration of Chinese authorities.
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