Can YouTube and Telegram Be Unblocked? / Steps to Lift Filtering Based on the Supreme Cyberspace Council's 32-Article Document
The National Center for Cyberspace declassified its document 'Facilitating Access to Foreign Platforms and Advancing Law-Based Governance' and made a copy available to journalists.
The National Center for Cyber Space released the document "Facilitating Access to Foreign Platforms and Promoting Lawful Governance" from confidentiality and provided a copy of it to journalists.
According to Ambassador Arjan, the document "facilitating access to foreign platforms and promoting lawful governance" is in line with the completion of the document "policies and measures to organize social messengers" (approved by meetings no. 36 to 40) and the document "examining solutions to increase the share of domestic traffic and deal with filter breakers" (approved by meeting no. 96 of the Supreme Council of Cyberspace) and with the aim of providing the legitimate and legal needs of people in accessing content and services while promoting lawful governance, in one hundred And the fourth meeting dated 4/10/1403 was approved and its amendment was approved in the 15th meeting dated 23/11/1403.
According to Ambassador Arjan, this document has now been released from secrecy.
Part of the text of this document is as follows:
1. The four stages of reopening foreign platforms
This resolution considers the removal of the filter to be subject to step-by-step implementation and the approval of the steering committee:
First stage (Google Play and WhatsApp):
Unlocking and facilitating access to Google Play and WhatsApp.
At the same time, providing the technical infrastructure required for selected native platforms by the Ministry of Communications.
Allocation of a support package of 500 billion tomans for advertisements in radio and television for domestic platforms.
Promulgating the new model of traffic pricing and content revenue sharing for the benefit of domestic producers and platforms.
Access to YouTube based on "lawful governance" mechanisms (disaggregation and filtering of content or use of filteringable skins/interfaces).
Beginning of negotiations and attracting the participation of new foreign platforms.
The task of the Ministry of Communications to officially negotiate with the Telegram platform to accept the terms and laws of the country.
Alternative path in case of non-acceptance: providing users with access to Telegram only through native governance mechanisms (such as shell or interface service providers).
The fourth stage (other platforms and dealing with circumvention tools):
Determining the task of other widely used platforms after evaluating the results of the previous steps.
Strict criminalization of the production, distribution and commercialization of filter breakers and filtering bypass tools.
Monitoring advertising revenues and preventing tax evasion in foreign platforms.