Daneshwar: Iranians routinely use VPNs to access blocked social media platforms
Nazanin Daneshwar · a16z Podcast | Layering Tech and Culture in Iran · Jan 2, 2019 · at 16:43
Nazanin Daneshwar, founder of Iranian e-commerce platform Takhfifan, describes how Iranian citizens routinely bypass state censorship of Twitter and Facebook via VPNs.
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“Facebook advertisement is closed for Iranians, like Google AdWords as well, but the fact that people here are having the full access to Twitter, to Facebook, and Facebook is blocked by the government as well, but we are going through the VPNs, so everybody is connecting through that, so that is just like, I was just checking my Twitter before basically the whole call starts, so we are pretty much all the time, like, having full access to all these social media.”
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