Iran minister says all web surfers to be 'identified'

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Internet censorship is a bone of contention between conservative hardliners and moderates such as Rouhani

Iran’s telecommunications minister has said his technicians are developing a system to identify any Internet user in the country at the moment of log-on, the ISNA news agency reported Saturday.

“Because of our efforts, in future when people want to use the Internet they will be identified, and there will be no web surfer whose identity we do not know,” Mahmoud Vaezi said, without elaborating on how this would technically be done.

Last month, he said the Islamic republic would have “smart filtering” within six months to weed out Internet content the authorities deem offensive or criminal.

Source: www.i24news.tv

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