Developments over the past month show that communications controls are expanding rapidly into every layer of users’ digital lives. This includes official announcements targeting satellite internet technologies, cutting off SIM cards and phone lines of Instagram-based businesses, conditioning infrastructure access on identity verification, and linking services and network resources to real-world identities. Taken together, theseContinue reading "Iran’s Government Fears Its Filtering Is Failing: From the “Blackout” to Declaring War on Starlink"