The news released by the Public Relations Department of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology regarding the Nowruz meeting of “Sattar Hashemi” with the employees and managers of the ministry states: “The Minister of Communications and Information Technology stated that the priorities for the new year are improving the livelihoods of employees, providing transparent statistics, avoiding politicization, and implementing national projects such as energy smartization and e-government services.”
According to Ideaagency, among the priorities mentioned in this news, there is no mention of two fundamental concerns of citizens: improving internet quality and eliminating filtering.
Removing filtering was one of Masoud Pezeshkian’s election promises, but in the end, after months of waiting, he only settled for removing the filter on WhatsApp and Google Play, and removing the filter on other platforms was postponed to an unknown future; and that at the cost of approving a secret resolution in the Supreme Council for Cyberspace, which, according to Mehr News Agency, some clauses of which are related to providing a class-based internet with the alias “organizing the Internet of the Classes” and providing special and exclusive privileges to domestic messengers.
Meanwhile, it seems that the Ministry of Communications of the 14th government, with the keyword “avoiding politicization” that has been repeated many times in the minister’s speeches, is trying to expose itself less to criticism of the current state of the country’s internet.
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