To quell protests, Iran uses Chinese-style internet control 1/14/2018 7:09:48 PM internet censorship in Iran Baghdad Post, January 14 2018  - Amid growing protests, Iran’s government censors its critics with Chinese-style internet control, a report, published in The Intercept, revealed Saturday. Late last month, as nationwide street protests entered their fourth day, Iran’s interior minister, Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, issued a statement darkly warning that online social networks in the country were being used to create “violence and fear.” A day earlier, the internet as a whole had briefly flickered offline throughout Iran in what was widely interpreted as a government-engineered throttling. Following Fazli’s statement, the government blocked access to the photo-sharing site Instagram, as well as Telegram, a secure messaging app used by 40 million Iranians per month that had begun to emerge as a key organizing tool for protesters. The shutdown of Telegram...