Iran is rolling out new “individual filters” that will let citizens receive access to different parts of the internet, depending on government clearance, and will allow censors to weed out specific website pages – not entire domains, as they currently do.
“Implementing the smart filtering plan, we are trying to block the criminal and unethical contents of internet sites, while the public will be capable of using the general contents of those sites,” communications minister Mahmoud Vaezi told the official IRNA news agency.
Vaezi said that only 10 to 15 percent of the contents of some of the social networks would be affected as a result.
“Presently, the smart filtering plan is implemented only on one social network in its pilot study phase and this process will continue gradually till implementing the plan on all networks,” the Iranian official continued, saying the process will take six months to complete.
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