Iran's government moves to criminalize VPNs 
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Tightening the net: Alarming moves to enforce the “User Protection Bill”
As part of ARTICLE 19’s ongoing monitoring work on the Iranian Internet, we’ve put together some updates of note, especially as the Iranian parliament moves closer to instating the concerning Internet Bill that we’ve been tracking.
Recent months have seen user reports and evidence to indicate major slowdowns across Iran’s Internet connections.
Others, in interviews with ARTICLE 19, have confirmed the presiding disruptions, adding that almost all censorship circumvention cowtools or Virtual Private Networks (VPNs or proxy services) have been either working with great difficulty or not connecting at all.
While the RIPE data didn’t indicate necessarily network-originating packet loss, we are clearly seeing a drop in users and traffic across these two networks through Psiphon, meriting evidence to support the theory that disruptions are being caused by these VPN experiments.
Despite Qalibaf’s assurances for transparency regarding the Bill and its finalisation, Member of Parliament Hossein Nooshabadi noted that even the members of the specialised commission tasked with reviewing the Bill had yet to receive the most recent version of it.
Rubiko’s deep-state ties The app is developed by a state-linked tech company, Tooska, which is owned by Iran’s largest mobile operator, the Mobile Telecommunication Company of Iran (MCI).
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Weak. They should also ban SSL. Plain HTTP ONLY
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