Disruption is the beginning of the end for the internet
On the list of concerns and anxieties created for people, one constant issue is whether they can connect to the internet today or not. If they connect in the morning, can they still connect at noon? Do the proxies work or not? Is today’s bandwidth worse or will it be worse tomorrow?
The Shargh newspaper wrote about this situation, stating that these days there is no individual or company that is not facing internet disruptions and hiding their concern about what will happen to cyberspace in the future.
Shahram Sharif, editor of IT Iran, also mentioned that we should distinguish between disruption and filtering. In recent years, we see that disruption is practically being turned into a form of filtering, which at least socially seems to incur less cost than filtering.
In this regard, Gholamreza Nouri Ghezeljeh, a member of parliament, also says that as long as we consider the internet as a problem and intend to confront it, we cannot succeed in this field. The mentality of restricting and blocking in order to get rid of the internet has not and will not lead anywhere.
