Margarita Grinko

Nationalizing the Internet to Break a Protest Movement: Internet Shutdown and Counter-Appropriation in Iran of late 2019

To deal with a spontaneous civil uprising following a substantial rise in gas prices, the Iranian security apparatus imposed techno-political measures in late 2019, blocking access to international websites and services. To analyze these measures, we conducted 19 interviews with Iranians living inside and outside the…