{"id":14945,"date":"2015-02-22T14:08:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T20:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14945"},"modified":"2015-02-22T14:08:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T20:08:14","slug":"the-big-money-behind-irans-internet-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14945","title":{"rendered":"The big money behind Iran&#8217;s Internet censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Independent Iranian media have reported that &#8220;elements within the government and the Revolutionary Guard provide support to a number of VPN sellers,&#8221; according to <a href=\"http:\/\/smallmedia.org.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/u8\/IIIP_Aug2014_v2.pdf\">a 2014 report <\/a>from Small Media. &#8220;Reports hypothesize that this is a mutually profitable arrangement; lining the pockets of officials at the same time as it allows VPN sellers to continue in their work without the threat of state interference.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BBC Persian journalist Hadi Nili says that not only do Iranian authorities sell VPN accounts, the Iranian government even uses VPNs in order to protect their own connections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/politics\/iran-censorship-circumvention-tech\/\">The big money behind Iran&#8217;s Internet censorship<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent Iranian media have reported that &#8220;elements within the government and the Revolutionary Guard provide support to a number of VPN sellers,&#8221; according to a 2014 report from Small Media. &#8220;Reports hypothesize that this is a mutually profitable arrangement; lining &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14945\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[1181,383,1109],"class_list":["post-14945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-censorship","tag-chinese-firewall","tag-vpn-providers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14946,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14945\/revisions\/14946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}