"The current #blackout is not an isolated panic reaction but a stress test for a long-term strategy, say advocacy groups—a two-#tiered or “#class-based” #internet known as Internet-e-Tabaqati. #Iran’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace, the country’s highest internet policy body, has been laying the legal and technical groundwork for this since 2009.
In July 2025, the council passed a regulation formally institutionalizing a two-tiered hierarchy. Under this system, access to the global internet is no longer a default for #citizens, but instead a #privilege granted based on #loyalty and professional necessity. The implementation includes such things as “white SIM cards“: special mobile lines issued to government officials, security forces, and approved journalists that bypass the state’s filtering apparatus entirely."
#censorship #fascism #evolution
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/why-tehrans-two-tiered-internet-is-so-dangerous.html