Tehran, YJC. Secretary of the Supreme National Cyberspace Council Mohammad Hassan Entezari said that the council is going to overhaul the country’s internet censorship system.
Speaking at the sidelines of the 15th
international telecommunication exhibition (Iran Telecom 2014) he said that the
cyberspace council is to conduct a session in the near future in which it will
pass 30 nation-wide plans on cyberspace.
The plans will then be referred to the president for
approval, he maintained.
Entezari stated "One of the plans is the surveillance system
for the national information network which will be issued to the Communication
Ministry in the near future.”
Pointing out that the national plan concerns issues such as
the production of content, appointment of regulations, and watching over
security in the cyberspace, he said that the plans will aim the development of the
cyberspace content.
Also providing comments on the smart censorship policies
which were launched by the council a week earlier he said a filtering software
has been designed which, instead of blocking an entire website, filters
undesired parts as decided by the administrator.