Simon Migliano, who compiled the Top10VPN shutdown report, told me “Iran’s current nationwide blackout is a blunt instrument intended to crush dissent, starkly different from the sophisticated, slow-burn digital censorship we’re seeing in Russia.”

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The nationwide shutdown of the internet in Iran during anti-regime protests remains in place and has now lasted more than 60 hours, the internet monitor Netblocks says.

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