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Sources: Iran's attempts to block Telegram drive millions to censorship circumvention tools for PC and mobile like Lantern and Psiphon

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal :

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  • @crispinburke Crispin Burke on x
    “When governments do this stuff, they are our best marketing tool,” says maker or circumvention app for Telegram. http://www.wsj.com/...
  • @kjtorrance Kelly Jane Torrance on x
    The regime's Internet blockade is not working. “Psiphon said the number of unique users a day in Iran jumped from about 3 million to more than 10 million on Jan. 1 and 2, amid the protests, and remains around 8 million.” #IranProtests http://www.wsj.com/...
  • @samschech Sam Schechner on x
    Iran's blocking of Telegram, which is very popular in the country, has had an unintended consequence: Millions of Iranians have taken up sophisticated circumvention tools. http://www.wsj.com/... http://twitter.com/...
  • @samschech Sam Schechner on x
    Why does 4x growth in Iranian usage of anti-censorship apps matter? @CDA says: “People are using circumvention tools to access Telegram who might not normally use them. And that is giving them access to a much wider internet.” http://www.wsj.com/...