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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
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- Global importance
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- Impact magnitude
- 4/10
- Positivity
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- Urgency
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Why it matters
It documents that a Russian firm provided infrastructure-level internet censorship solutions to the Iranian regime.

