I’m a software developer and user interface designer based in Tehran, Iran. I’ve been working as a designer/developer in Tech industry since 2003. Iranian tech community has been trying to keep up with the world specially the United States since almost every big revolution in tech happens there. We have many talented engineers, developers, designers, analysts and entrepreneurs in Iran and many of them are as educated as the ones in the United States and other industrial countries. They study, read, educate themselves and keep up with what’s happening right now in the world. It’s true that we don’t have access to high speed uncensored Internet like the rest the of the world and this makes it really difficult to work and grow in this country. The highest bandwidth we can get our hands on is 8Mbps and without a VPN connection or proxy service, we don’t have access to many sites like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc. But we manage to get our hands on proxy services all the time so accessing blocked websites is not that much of a hassle these days. Despite all these restrictions, we still do our best to keep up day by day. It’s just more difficult for us than it is for the rest of the world. In past few years, the United States government has imposed many sanctions on Iran and Iranian people becuase of the political differences they have with the Iranian government (and I’m not going into that) and they claim they are not affecting lives of Iranians and they’re intented to pressure the government. Here’s the bad news: They make our lives a living hell. There are sanctions on exporting hardware, software and services to Iran and anyone from Iran, sanctions on education (MOOC, eg. Coursera), Sanctions on providing Iranians with Web Hosting, Domains and SSL Certificates and many more. I’m going to show you some examples: We can not buy hosting space, VPS, domains, SSL certificates and anything related from the companies in the U.S. If even our customer address is located in Iran, our accounts get blocked completely. Yeah, That’s all we know.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 12:29:37 +0000
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