For Amir Rashidi Iran’s previous internet blackouts felt like yelling for help with nobody to hear you.
But as an internet expert, Amir believes internet cutoffs like #Iran’s could become more common than we like to think.
Amir Rashidi was arrested in #Tehran on New Year’s Day in 2009, swept into a security van with fourteen others.
Inside, other detainees scrambled to call friends, asking them to scrub their names from any public writing, anything that might be considered criminal to the regime.