Hasn’t the time for deplatforming the Iranian regime on Twitter come, yet?
Despite Twitter being blocked and inaccessible in Iran, it’s quite popular amongst the Iranian users and Iranian regime’s officials. Meanwhile, in the past weeks, Iranian censorship has intensified and the intentional throttling by the Iranian Telecommunication Infrastructure Company, which was funded by the previous ICT minister, Azari Jahromi, has made the blocked apps and websites even harder than before.
In the past, due to racist and dangerous speeches by the Iranian officials on Twitter, numerous campaigns were started for blocking Iranian officials’ access to Twitter. I stood against blocking their access and in my opinion, removing the malign content would have been enough, but now, everything has changed.
Current situation for the Iranian users has gotten so difficult, users inside Iran are risking their lives by using their own identities on social media, some also keep their activity anonymous. With a simple search on Twitter, which is blocked by the Iranian regime, you may find out how bummed the Iranians and their twitter community are. The only silver lining is to spend time on social media while the Iranian regime is drowning in corruption.
On 2020, Twitter and AccessNow have introduced the Internet outage hashtag in order to express their protest against the internet outage, Former Twitter VP, Monique writes:
“One of the elemental things powering our shared resolve at this unprecedented moment is the connected nature of our world, connectivity that is driven by the Internet. But, what if the ability to gather and share critical information, access essential products and services, learn and work from home effectively, connect with our loved ones, and speak truth to power, was taken away from us? Unfortunately, this is the reality for many people around the world.”
Monique asked a question which is also being asked by the international community and more important, by the Iranian people.
While the pro-regime journalists, pro-IRGC news agencies and Iranian officials are using an unblocked internet or using the whitelisted proxy lists, why shouldn’t the Iranian users access these environments?
I hereby invite Twitter to break their silence during these difficult days for the Iranians, recently, Twitter made an adorable decision about Russia:
Isn’t it the turn for the Iranian regime officials and their pro-accounts? It’s never too late to stand beside the users who are worried about the interruption and blockade of their proxies and VPN programs. You’ve 0 business with Iran, losing Iranian officials on the platform won’t be worrisome for you.
Twitter is blocked in Iran and it’s been years that every new government promised to unblock it, yet, none of the governments, including the Raeisi’s administration haven’t done anything regarding that. Don’t let the _ thanks to the oil _ rich and terror supporter regime silence the Persian users from Iran. You will be remembered by history, and Iranians!
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