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Iran’s digital prison was built with the help of Russians

A Russian company named Protei supplied the Iranian regime with infrastructure-level internet censorship solutions. The excerpt also states the firm works in Estonia and Jordan and has clients among the world’s worst autocracies.

Categories: geopolitics-and-conflicts, technology

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Confidence
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Geographic reach
6/10
Global importance
4/10
Impact magnitude
4/10
Positivity
2/10
Urgency
2/10

Why it matters

It documents that a Russian firm provided infrastructure-level internet censorship solutions to the Iranian regime.

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