Digital discrimination and the role of the “White SIM” in controlling society, managing protests, and inflicting violence—especially against women activists.
A recent exposé by Platform X revealed the reality that people had long known but the government had concealed:
Special, unfiltered access for officials and those close to power,
While millions face filtering, slow connections, outages, and constant surveillance.
In this episode, together with Alireza Tayyeb, a lawyer and online networks activist, we explore the complex architecture of internet repression;
From the nationwide blackout of November 2019 to regional shutdowns, DPI, traffic management, and new control methods.
We also address a major aspect of digital violence:
Organized attacks against women, journalists, and political activists—a violence not only perpetrated by the government but also, at times, reproduced by parts of the opposition through sabotage, erasure, and polarization.
The Ravi–Ham-Avā podcast series aims to expand the national discourse around universal values, democracy, the separation of religion and state, human rights, gender equality, and the preservation of Iran’s territorial integrity.
Within such a framework, we can move along the path of collective wisdom toward a free and dignified Iran—for all Iranians, regardless of belief, thought, gender, ethnicity, or background.
“Government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”