Analysis and commentary on technology, governance, and human systems by experts at the Center for Governance of Technology and Systems (GoTech) at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy
Iran’s Internet Kill Switch: Regime Survival Through Digital Isolation
For most countries, the resulting instability is too risky to be a viable strategy of authoritarian control, even without the added threat of U.S. strategic bombings. Iran, however, has spent more than a decade developing the National Information Network (NIN), giving the regime the infrastructure to sustain digital isolation while intensifying violence against its own citizens.
