Iranian citizens are flocking to tools designed to help citizens of blacked-out nations connect to the internet as their government tries to squelch protests.
Protesters outside Iran's consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on Thursday. Photo: Erhan Demirtas/Bloomberg via Getty Images
"Daily demand for virtual private network services in Iran is up over 3,000% compared to before the protests," Simon Migliano, head of research at"This is a massive spike, given that demand was already healthy before the social media shutdown."Google says its Jigsaw subsidiary's open-source Outline tool has seen a spike in demand from Iran this week, per data shared exclusively with Axios.
Outline allows third parties to set up secure VPNs that are resistant to disruption and censorship efforts. One such third party, Nthlink, reports that its VPN saw a massive surge in use from 40,000 users a day to nearly a million at peak and continues to see usage at ten times a typical level.Protests erupted in dozens of cities in Iran earlier in September over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while she was in police custody for violating the country's mandatory head-scarf law.
Disruptions of the internet started with government blockages of social messaging platforms like Whatsapp and Instagram and then widened to shutdowns for wireless access and other basic online services in some areas, per
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